89互助营—高频issue185“丑闻“资料和提纲讨论

fatluoUID: 191214

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."

google了一下午，总算找到一篇还可以的，就是有些晦涩。
精选：
All these scandals and attempted scandals had or were given a strong and scurrilous sexual content, and were eagerly initiated and exploited by most male political participants

Scandals readily became political weapons not just because everyone could enjoy their often-pornographic content, but also because they represented highly accessible ways of exploring and debating serious issues.
They could be presented as melodramatic stories, containing familiar themes of high-born villains, oriental despots, designing women, innocent victims and broken hearts. Though often outwardly trivial, exaggerated, even fictitious, their content could be made to symbolise much wider concerns. Thus radicals could use George IV’s sexual excesses and ill-treatment of his wife as symbols of overweening monarchical and aristocratic power, decadence and corruption. His extravagant life-style could be contrasted with the sufferings endured by masses, and his neglected duties towards them. Conservatives of all kinds could use Mary Wollstonecraft’s irregular love-life as an emblem for the disorder that the influence of French principles threatened to bring to England.
By helping undermine the legitimacy of the old system and its traditional elites, to raise popular political expectations, and to create the civil society so often seen as underpinning successful democratisation, this and other scandals had significant effects upon politics in both the short and longer terms.

Scandals were the ultimate embodiment of what a press baron of a much later age described as being the essence of ‘news’ – ‘anything out of the ordinary’. Scandals sold newspapers; sexual scandals sold them better.

journalists seem to have been less concerned about, and certainly less able to ensure, the accuracy of the news they reported than their present-day counterparts

fatluoUID: 191214

提纲：
1．        丑闻的确很有作用。它提供警示，引起人们对一些潜在危险的注意；它让后人从案例中学到如何避免前车之鉴；
2．        丑闻和reformer的方式有些不一样。丑闻用生动的情节，具体的案例，甚至有些夸张地描述更多地引起别人的注意。
3．        正是由于这些原因，现在的丑闻，尤其是资讯的传播发达以后，变得不再以社会改革等为目的。媒体用它来增加受众吸引力；政治家用来作为供给对手的武器；大众用它来娱乐。

但是，好像完全没有提到” ways that speaker or reformer use”,大家来讨论一下这个题目吧，大牛也进来指导以下！

sharon84UID: 2110816

我觉得还可以再谈谈scandal在academia area的情形吧
political scandal的负面效果是可能更多地被政治家作为攻击的武器，大众只是将其作为娱乐
但是academia area的scandal负面效果似乎要小些

victoriazhizhiUID: 163135

fatluoUID: 191214

https://bbs.gter.net/viewthre ... &extra=page%3D1
这是链接。

其实我看到这个帖子很多遍了，但是每次看到中间处就没看了，因为开头写着暂时同主题关闭，就等着下次开始。没发现中下方每个题目都是可以点开的。

真想抽自己啊。

fatluoUID: 191214

感谢鬼谷子！
为了方便更多地人看，我把它转移到这来了。

yzyangqinUID: 183574

I'm still perplexed about this issue :-(
Is there anyone who can tell me by what way the speakers and reformers attract the public attention?

sixsenseUID: 197669

我今天上午限时就是写的这一篇！！写得很烂，以前虽然列过提纲，但已经彻底忘记了。现编现写，真的是用四六级的大白话硬着头皮往上写，写完竟然发现超过了500字，真是破了自己的记录。不过内容极度白痴，真有重写的冲动。哈哈，也就这个语言水平了，只能希望自己尽量把重要题目的提纲记住，靠现场去构思，很不靠谱。