issue185-G-89-互助社-8.12日同主题写作

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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.

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从2005年7月13日0时24分到2005年7月13日1时19分

提纲:1.丑闻能很快引起注意
         2.丑闻揭露社会问题，引起大众注意，这样问题能得到很快的解决
        3.  丑闻转移大众视线
说明：自我感觉写得还行。请大家帮我看看观点与题目的切合是否紧密（跑题否), 观点是否深入，逻辑有否问题，例子与论点结合的是否紧密，语言方面存在哪些问题要改进（比如词汇贫乏，句式单调无变化等等）。说了这么多，我是不是太贪心了:lol 还有4天考试，非常感谢你的耐心修改，留下链接，一定回拍，并提出实质性建议。
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Can scandals be useful, whether in politics, academia, or other areas, and they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could, as the speaker asserts? I strongly agree that compared with other forms, scandals do focus our attention on problems as fast as they can. Yet although scandals can be use most of the time, the over-emphasized attention on scandals sometimes can prevent us from concerning more important things.

To begin with, compared with other forms, such as speaker's long speeches and reformer's actions, scandals would always be the most attractive one to people as soon as it emerges. Good news is always similar, while scandals are different. According to the theories of psychology, it is human nature that people tend to investigate other persons' scandals that do not happen to themselves, which helps people to feel better about them. One compelling example is the good sales of a Chinese newspaper, Southern Weekend, a piece of newspaper which reveals all kinds of scandals of Chinese society more often than any other newspaper in the country. When Southern Weekend first came out, nobody knew the existence of it; but nowadays, Southern Weekend has become the most popular newspaper in South China.  The key to Southern Weekend' success is that the editors of the newspaper have captured the readers' inclinations and developed the newspaper appealing to the public's interest----the scandals.

Secondly, scandals can be useful in revealing the covered social problems and attracting the public's attention as soon as possible, which would help to find the solution to problems quickly. People pays little attention to uncovered social problems until the problems emerge in the form of scandals. For example, a few years ago, a smuggle case which happened in Xiamen city, Fujian province of China, astonish the whole nation, because the officials of Xiamen government were involved. Seeing the great of development of Xiamen's economy, few people would connect the officials of Xiamen government with a smuggle crime. The report of the scandal causes a social discussion about effectiveness of the system of our government. Finally, the national government took strong measures to prevent such similar scandals from happening.

However, over-emphasized focus on scandals might turn people's attention from more important things, and covered other social problems that deserve people's more concentrations. For example, in 1998, the headlines of most newspapers were almost the same----pop stars' sex scandals. At that time, the pop stars' sex scandals appeared on TV, radio programs, even ordinary people's street talks more often than previous years, and talking about pop stars' sex scandals has nearly become a fashion. The pop stars' sex scandals have successfully shifted the public attention from more important things which also happened in that year, such as medical reform, social-security crisis or global problems.

To sum up, to evoke the attention of the public, the best weapon appears to be scandals which can expose the social problem straight in front of the public, and eventually get solved under pressure from the public. Yet over-emphasized focus on scandals brings no benefit and even does harm to society, and we can not focus excessively on scandals, which in turn distracts our attention from more important and pressing  issues.

[ Last edited by fishjoy on 2005-8-13 at 02:04 ]

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看了，不错~~以后来改~