Issue185 越洋农场站队快组

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185."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." 185． 丑闻，不管是政治、学术还是其他领域，可能是有用的。它们能吸引人们的注意力，而这点，是任何发言人和改革家都办不到的

提纲：
1，丑闻吸引了过多的目光，由于人们对于丑闻的过度关心，就从很多相对重要的事情上分散了注意力，没有必要（新闻媒体在其中起了推波助澜的作用）
2，丑闻会给个人造成很大的压力，有时候这种压力是不公正的（家庭工作单位或者学校受到不良的影响）
3，丑闻可以有效地曝光内幕，给予当事人应有的惩罚，可以督促媒体和大众的监督，可以 起到警告的作用。

正文：
Scandal, by definition, is a publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society. They distract people's attention from much more pressing social issues, which surely are not as appealing,  hurl the original systematic function of certain organization or the apparently pacific existence of certain individual into a completely disorder ； They act as the lucrative crop of media coverage and the unbearable burden which push the person in case to the edge of dilemma.

Always, Scandals are the cynosure of public attention. Perhaps due to a kind of envy or simply a kind of interest, people enjoy all sorts of information of public figures. Pander to this psychological requisite , the intense media scrutiny functions as the distributor of even the most private affairs. Scandal, the most private and the most startling thus the most lucrative news serving to satisfy people's mean desires,
become the most catching headline of even the most serious newspapers. All kinds of "new details" effervesce after the initial exposition. All kinds of media is replete with the so called background, cause, being found, retaliating and summit ,canter to people's seemingly unsatisfiable interest. In this miscellaneous compound, the unduly concern of media and the mass squeeze out the actually more vital issue, like the implication of new policies, the urging issue of poverty and medical care, and the historical racialism. The law system, though it should be under the supervision of the media and people, has its own system of superintention, and usually is capable to solve its problem without the intervention of others. So over attention of certain scandal is not necessary and distract our attention from much more crucial issues.

During a scandal, there are always many rumors and gossip, and a few of them only serve to catch eyeball and attract people's attention, therefore inevitably comprises certain mendacity or blurred information. The person in case is surely under pressure, and in most cases this pressure is unbearable. In certain extremely cases they committed suicide to evade the despise and contempt the other flung or occurred psychological illness. Furthermore, their relatives and colleagues are also suffering after the exposition. They have to face the universally abounded media scrutiny; they have to swallow the biter feeling of humiliation; they can not keep their pacific life and even be rumored to be active in the case. Due to media's distribution, they turned to the objection of disdaining and scorning, and this height-fall process is usually frustrating and hard to undertake.

Scandals, however, acts as the public supervisor of the action of public figures, thus the person of power should be the person with responsibility and the one under supervision. Admittedly, sometimes this power restriction system would expose its most delicate part to the public intention, and in this case the public attention serves as the final judge of morality and truth. Watergate, which began with the burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic Party’s campaign headquarters, later engulfed President Richard M. Nixon and many of his supporters in a variety of illegal acts, and culminated in the first resignation of a U.S. president, is a extremely case in point. Though Watergate seriously shook and confused the nation, it is a apt example for scandal admonition, which can witness the remarkable adaptation of government operation as aftermath.

Scandal, as argued above, is the focus of  media and public attention which, however, distract people's attention from otherwise more pressing social issues and burden the person involved, serving as influential social instigator. On the other hand, it can expose certain inner operation to the public supervision and guarantee its fairness.