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发表于 2005-3-10 17:30:53 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Issue185:800words  45 minutes
Scandals—whether in politics, academia, or other areas—can be useful. They focus our attention on problem that no speaker and reformer ever could.

Can  the scandals  be useful  that they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could? As far as I am concerned , if we  narrowly define the usefulness as effectiveness of calling the public’s attention, I strongly agree with the conclusion, ,yet  if we regard this usefulness as the benefits scandals can bring about, then I would argue that scandals can only be useful when people focus on how to solve the problems reflected by scandals.

To begin with, as to the attention called by the scandals, it is primarily for three reasons why scandals are useful (or say effectiveness) that the reformer and speaker can not ever could. Firstly, it has something to do with the human nature, as we all human beings has curiosity about other people's lives, love to pry into other person's affairs, especially the  not so good ones, even may be a little happy to find that the person we like or admire may have the disadvantages or disgrace  too. So these scandals are aptly to  provoke public’s concern while  speaker and reformer  may not bring about such case. Secondly, the mass media plays a paramount important part in drawing the public's attention to the scandals and sometimes foster the public's habit of prying into others’ lives. With the development of  technology, radio, TV and internet came into our horizons, these inventions have all greatly improved the wideness and efficiency of distributing the scandals. Also, the mass media , run by corporations in pursuit of  maximum profit , will make use of  every opportunity to draw the public’s attention  through reporting scandals to satisfy the humane desire mentioned above, thus may  make some people addicted in scandals. As to the reformer and speaker, although they can make use of mass media, the media may not be a so powerful force compared to  distributing scandals for self interests.  Thirdly , scandals make people initiatively wonder  the severe problems they reflect, rather than the speaker and reformer just illustrate examples to make people passively accepted.

However,  from the aspect of the benefits scandals bring about , whether they can be useful or not largely depends on the situations how people react to scandals after they have been drawn attention to them. If people can strive the way out to solve the problems when facing scandals, then  scandals can improve the whole society through reformations .For instance, in the realm of politic, the first president of the USA  who was resigned is Richard Nixon, his scandal----the Watergate scandal, greatly provoked the anger of his people because he abused his right which  may contempt the constitution to some extent and  harmed the interests of his  people. This scandal drove people to think the abuse of power and the revision of the law ,which indicated that no one can beyond the law and public's interests ,even the president. Similarly, in the area of the economic, the Enron scandal ,which is  regard as one of the most prosperous corporations, broke down suddenly  because of its problematic method of accounting . This incident cause public to reflect regulating the behavior of business, then lead to the revision of the law concerning the accounting method which are much better than before. These two scandals have all called people’s attention , and when people seriously wondering the problems thus make some changes to solve the problems the scandals reflect, then the society benefited a lot from scandals. Nevertheless, if public just slip the scandals over after paying attention to  them or leave them just as topics of gossip, then no benefits can be brought about.,  even, this behavior may be  harmful to our society. The citizenry may become very superficial , and  the attention has been draw from the more important issues, like the famine, starve, education , crime and so on , that’s is really detrimental to society.  If that happens, then the speaker and reformer compared  are certainly  more useful to  give rise to advance of our society than scandals.

In conclusion, the scandals can be useful when calling attention of public for three reasons listed above, if we just define usefulness narrowly as this kind of effectiveness . But if we refers to the usefulness as beneficial to the society , the answer is different. The scandal can be useful if we focus on solving the problems reflected by scandals , otherwise they are not useful or even harmful to society. So we should be aware of making use of scandals , maybe through education and with the help of mass media to lead people to  get on the right track.