issue185【0706G－CRUSADE小组】第5次作业

dreamcasaerUID：2300942

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.（495）

丑闻确实可以吸引人们的注意力，这是那些演说家做不到的
丑闻可以让督促人们改变很多问题。
丑闻的不是所有的都真实，不真实的丑闻带来巨大负面影响
so 对待丑闻要慎重，真实的丑闻暴露出社会问题。虚假的丑闻影响人们的生活。

        I tend to partly agree with arguer’s claim. As for me, true scandals may be useful, but an untrue scandal could bring society tremendous adverse effects. Thus people should deal cautiously with scandals.

        Admittedly, the scandals do attract people’s attention due to the human beings innate curiosity. People are inclined to know the unknown secrets such as political insides and celebrity privacy, and scandals which expose those disgraced and immoral secret to public actually satisfy people’s psychology. The people’s degree of attention to the scandals may well illustrate my point; the Watergate Affair, Clinton’s sex scandal and other political scandals, they all attract wide attention form community. Unlike the boring and dull speech made by reformer or speaker, scandals are often vivid and lively, exaggerated by magazines and newspapers; this may be another reason scandals draw people’s attention.

        Through investigating the scandals which reveals the insides and underground things, people may discover the social issues reflected by the scandals and take proper measures to prevent these scandals from happening again. Ample example may serve well to demonstrate this point of view. The Enron Sandal resulted in countless employees losing their job because the Enron company falsely reported profits to make the company appear profitable. Similar incidents include the WorldCom Scandal, which also falsely reported expense to disguise as profitable. These two scandals resulted in reform of accounting practices and the improvement on ability of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to supervise the accounting fraud. As another illustration, 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandals which revealed in 1999 exposed to public that Salt Lake City, Utah, gave bribes to members of International Olympic Committee(IOC) in order to host the 2002 Winter Games. This Scandal resulted in a major reform of the IOC. These well-known examples show that the scandals do have merits to society, but do all the scandals have advantage to public?

        In my point of view, only the true scandals may bring public advantage by reflecting the problems in society. Nevertheless, there are also untrue scandals caused and speared by some immoral people. The Kelly affair in Britain in 2003 is a persuasive example. Dr. David Kelly who was a scientific officer and senior adviser committed suicide after BBC reported that he made allegations that the government hyped intelligence to justify war. At the end, Kelly was proved innocent, and it was a BBC’s reporter who had the main responsibility for his death. Another example is the AMERICAN IDOL judge scandal. The show AMERICAN IDOL judge Paula Abdul was exposed having sexual relations with a participant. But at the end it has also been proved that she is innocent. These two examples may demonstrate that an untrue scandal would not bring society any advantage, but only the bad influence and losses.

        To sum up, facing the scandals, people should be cautious enough to accept it selectively. The true scandals may be helpful to improve our society; in contrary, the untrue scandals do not have any merits, but tremendous disadvantages.

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dreamcasaerUID：2300942

呜呜呜，我辛苦的结晶啊