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4. Scandals areuseful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker orreformer ever could.
我的outline大概是这样的：
观点——同意
1. scandals有揭露真相的作用
2. 人们倾向于拒绝接受说句（speaker and reformer），而对负面消息有一种异乎寻常的好奇心；这可以使scandals更有效地抓住人们的注意力，从而解决问题
3. 但同时，我们需要注意丑闻不等于谣言
我的问题：
1. 第一点会不会有些跑题？
2. 如果把第一点省略掉，而把第二点拆成“丑闻可以更有效地引起关注”和“这可以让人们更充分地意识到问题的所在，从而解决问题”两部分，会不会更好一点？
The speaker claimsthat scandals, opposite to our common sense, are essential to our society becausethey can draw our attention on certain problems more efficiently than anyspeakers or reformers can. To some extent, I do agree with the author. Since theso-called “whole person”, who is perfectly flawless both physically andmorally, has never existed, we should adjust our attitudes towards the darkside of human nature. And as long as this fundamental concept is accepted, thefollowing reasons could be reasonable explanations of my agreement.
First and most basically of all, scandals dohave the function of informing us of the backstage plots which are realities,instead of false illusions, of events. Especially of the stories of thoseauthorities who are holding the power to manipulate the mass media to cover thehumiliating or reputation-damaging truth from the multitude. On the contrary,speakers or reformers, who might be among the array of those overpowering “somebody”,would do more to inspire or persuade the citizenry, even at the expense oftelling lies and hiding actualities. We do not need to cast our eyes furtherthan on the Scandal of Watergate to bolster this point—without the exposure ofthis shocking news report, we may never be accessible to the chance to knowwhat has happened during those electing months among those famous statesmen,and as a result of this ignorance, Nixon might be accepted as the nestpresident of America, with the fame of being morally perfect.
The second reason why I support the assertionis that, compared to common speakers and reformers, scandals have an almostenchanted power to arouse our curiosity, via which the attention of us can bedrawn closely to the issue and real progress can be made. From the perspectiveof psychology, this phenomenon can be elaborated by the nature of rebellion withinus: we are always disdaining the positive preaching from parents and teachers—whichare also the roles of speakers and reformers in public movements, but arelikely to be enchanted by negative gossips and stories—just look at the salevolume of terrific fictions. Fortunately, this not-so-good nature can lead usto endeavor in solving problems sometimes. For example, there had been voiceswho were trying to reveal the inside story of auditing profession, but wereneglected for a long time. It was the scandal of Enron Corporation thatresulted in the reformation in auditing.
However, we should be cautious that scandalsdo not equal groundless aspersions or fabricated libels. The differences liemostly on that, although they are all about negative and humiliatinginformation, the former ones should be true and be beneficial to the public forthe reason mentioned above, while the latter ones are fictions which do anythingharm to the person concerned and meanwhile, do nothing good to the hearersdespite some cheap entertainment values.
To sum, scandals, as the speaker asserts, areuseful due to their efficiency to draw people’s attention, and this kind ofefficiency is almost peerless to any speakers or reformers. However, to be moreoverall, we shall be cautious to the differences between scandals and gossips,which shall be differed, for most of the time, by ourselves. |
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