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TOPIC: ISSUE185 - "Scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
WORDS: 432          TIME: 00:50:00          DATE: 2008-1-17 PM 07:05:14

Scandals are things that are negative to the certain people related with the certain issue. It may attract the public’s attention relatively easier and more effective partly due to people’s curiosity to others’ personal affairs and disgust to evil things.

Scandals are useful on some occasions. A famous scandal may be the Watergate case about Nixon, the former American president, who took bribes from companies. The scandals were exposed by the media and end in Nixon's quit from the president position. Similar examples may be proposed, such as officials' taking bribes from the companies to gain extra incoming been considered as the gray incoming. These illegal deals usually been exposed by the media in the form of scandals and attracted the public's attention. Also other officials may be warned. It plays just like the public opinion supervision. Sometimes many things that cannot be properly done through normal approaches may gain unexpected results through the means of scandals. For example, a young man been unfairly treated by a leader who have private gratitude and resentment with him may appeal to clean up the fact which is considered to be a scandal of the leader. In this sense, we may believe that scandals are useful.

However, just like a coin has two opposite faces, the pessimistic influence of scandals cannot be overlooked.

For a healthy continuous development of a society, scandals cannot be a effective means for long, and it is obviously that too much reliance on this means may lead the society’s development to an abnormal stretch. In details, scandals sometimes are more harmful comparing with its effectiveness. Take the stars that may face more pressure because of scandals for example. As a person live in the public and earn his/her living by the public’s attention in some sense, they need to be noticed by the public to enjoy higher fame on one hand, but on the other hand, too much attention focused on their private affairs may put them in a situation of losing themselves, that is freedom. This may explain why there are so many stars indulged in taking drugs, though there may be some other causes, the pressure of so called scandals may play an unneglectable influence. And a healthy society may rely more on the normal means to gain justice to its citizens.

To sum up, scandals may be useful in certain occasions, and it does have more negative influences on daily lives. In order to enjoy a smooth operation，we may induce it properly to make scandals played as a supplement to the supervision mechanism and so on.