ISSUE185 丑闻的作用，高频！

MIMOSARLUID: 2112846

185."Scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that DO speaker or reformer ever could."

There is an old saying in China that the good news maybe no one knew it, but scandals no matter where you were you would know them. Though television, radio newspapers or internet those scandals no matter happened in politics, in academia, or in other areas could be conveyed to every where in this world. It is obviously that scandals could draw our attention to social events rather than the proclamation of the speaker or reformer. At the same time they give us an impetus to social reforms.

In politics, scandals could explode and draw our attention to the darkness side in politic which public never thought before. The paradigmatic modem example is the Watergate scandal. No public speaker or reformer could have called the nation's attention to the problem of presidential misconduct unless the scandal had surfaced. To some extent, those scandals could compel the government to supervise on officers more firmly than before. With the astonishing news's publish, one major kneeled down to a briber, the government put focus on the incoming of that major then found that there was about three million illegal incoming in his account. It is indicating that sometimes scandals is useful to notice public pay attention to some area they have ignored and help the government found the problems existing in her numbers while focusing on improving its public performance.

Not only in social level, but also in an individual level scandals could serve to call our attention to protect our own rights with the powerful energy by showing some illegal behaviors. What happened several months ago and still hinging in our heart difficult to be forgotten is that the Sudan I's founding in the hamburgers produced by KFC company. The spicy flavoring Sudan I has a potential effect in inducing liver cancer. Though the company claimed that it was an accident beyond their control, but what public knew is that to those companies called themselves as the most faithful company we still cannot completely credit on them and their promise. Through the explosion of scandals, even if what public see is just one corner of the iceberg under the surface of sea, it is enough for us to question the trust of those big companies and learn more to protect ourselves and our family.

Admittedly, it maybe truth that scandals sometimes serve chiefly to distract us from more pressing community or societal problems. Lots of news and particles about those stars private life filled our world such as who drunk in the bar, who fought with others and would be put into prison or who lost himself in gambling and so on. To meet with the curiousness of public and to earn their own interests, newspapers and media paid more energy to focus on the private life of stars or significant individuals. We are distracted from what we should be noticed such as the starving, the poverty, the drug abusing or the security of public. Actually those scandals have no any use except squandering our time and wasting our money.

In sum, while scandals could bring us more notice to those darkness sides of society, they also could distract our attention form what we should pay attention to. What we should do is to learn how to discern and how to use those scandals.

cuilei_1985UID: 2121020

思路满清晰的:)

hyy03203UID: 2125993

个人觉得那个“好事不出门，坏事传千里”最好不要说是Chinese saying，可能本身是中国人的缘故，我觉得太明显告诉考官你是中国人了。还有“坏事传千里”可翻译成：BAD NEWS HAS WINGS。更形象些。后面可再加一些东西凑字数。e.g. and fly far away through every corner of the world tamelessly.