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4. Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
Every society suffers the negative effects of scandals, yet it may also receive scandals' benefit effects. We should reflect this issue multi-dimensionally against all odds as the world itself has been formulated into a step of sophisticated and versatile. That is to say, the usefulness of scandals varies depending on different situations.
First off, there is no denying that scandals can expose the darkness of our society to public and administers could adjust or even correct the errors. Watergate Event is regarded as one of the most famous politic scandal in US history for the reason that not only the temporal president Nixon lost his job and politic prospect, but also this scandal evoked the multitude’s aspiration for fair and honest government. Thanks to two journalists of The Washington Post, Bob and Carl, persist for their investigation, president Nixon’s unfairly competition can ultimately be exposed to multitude. From this point, scandals in some circumstance can indeed attract populace’s attention on problems through which no speaker or reformer ever could.
Nevertheless, some people may contend that scandals sometimes could be overemphasized and thus the result could be too serious. The media, which actually live on populace’s concern for news, may amplify the seriousness of scandals to attract public attention. When referring to Bill Clinton, another U.S. president who are falling into politic scandals during his term, most of us may come into mind his entangled relationship with a White House intern. However, as is known, Clinton is a famous president for his political achievement that indicating U.S. economy into the rail of longest growth in U.S. history and most of us may forget this part of Clinton. In this case, scandals are detrimental to our society and the populace may be misguided to merely the dark side of the event and simply ignore or completely disregard the positive one.
Every issue ought to take a scrutiny from the panorama before making the final decision. Actually, frequently scandals can be especially deleterious for populace to believe in the society, especially the aspect of food safety, politic fair, medical safeguard, etc. With the development of economy and science, China nowadays walks into the step of transforming. Recent years, it is shocking that nearly everyday’s newspaper contain scandals like food poisoning, government official corruption, criminal activities. And populace would careworn to live and worry about he himself may be involved into these scandals. Under this circumstance, multitude would not believe everything around them; even worse, the whole society may collapsed and corrupt.
In retrospect, the issue concerning scandals should be scrutinized in multi-dimension as the usefulness of scandals varies depending on different situations. |
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