Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive
The speaker asserts that it is valid that using scandals to reveal some problems that are not found by the speakers and reformer. In my view, although scandals can help us pay attention on some hidden problems, we would be misguided and confused by the scandals.
Scandals could attract our focus and reveal some interesting problems to the public very quickly. In modern times, some social drawbacks are concealed very deeply, so that the common citizens have no ability to find them. When these problems are indulged as scandals by media, the public could regard these affairs and maybe the government would do its best to solve these problems. For example, a milk factory by producing a lot of unqualified milk benefit a lot, but the boss of this factory could not be arrested because a high government official cover up him. However when this factory as a scandal will be disclosed by media, no one can rescue them. They will face legal action and be sentenced into jail. Scandals, therefore, make a positive contribution to the society by superintending society.
However, scandals would be usually enlarged by media and internet, so that it becomes more and more unreal. In order to attract people’ attention, media will exaggerate scandals’ level ,so scandal’ reality would be destroyed. For example, a government official embezzles ten thousand dollars, but media will change this number into one million dollars. Therefore people will be deceived without regarding the genuine circumstance. This deceiving fact also brings terrible influence. Maybe people lose confidence on the government and are disgusted by the country. Even the society would be unstable.
In addition, sometimes the scandals would be generated with monetary profit. For the sake of profit, media might find some entertainment news as scandals to broadcast into the public. For example, when a super star has a new girlfriend, the media and internet will exaggerate the importance of event. The public will be attracted by these no useful events without regarding some important country’s affairs. Likewise, the media and internet have strong ability to destroy a star just because he or she make a little mistake. But no one can never be wonderful in everything. The society should give them a chance to correct the mistakes.
In sum, it may be true that scandals can attract our attention to some hidden bad problems, but when we could not deal with these scandals carefully, we would be misled by these scandals. 作者: jameszhm 时间: 2012-2-23 00:15
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however应该引起你论述的重点，但是侧重的不够。结尾草草了事。继续加油啊，看看满分作文。作者: 竹林中人 时间: 2012-2-24 11:37
我觉得你可以还补充一点，就是你提到的反的方面，你可以提出自己的看法怎么样去避免这些不好的东西，让批评更有效。。这样你的作文的深度就上去了