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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. Response 1: I agree that scandals can focus our attention on problems, but question whether they can be useful. Scandals are probably one of the journalists’ favorite materials. If a singer, for example, is exposed to have abused drugs, then this piece of news can easily be a powerful headline to attract the passengers to buy a newspaper at the sight of it. They are mainly driven by curiosity of what would happen to the protagonist, sometimes with a little bit anger. But for a speaker or a reformer, in order to arouse the interest of the public, they need to prepare very excellent speeches that can strike their hearts and at the same time, are not so difficult to understand so that they won’t drive away the impatient audiences. Speakers and reformers have to be excellent to satisfy these conditions, so usually, their speeches cannot achieve as much attention as scandals can. However, whether scandals are really useful to the society is to be questioned. Scandals are happened facts. In order words, they cannot always point out the most critical point of the problem, unlike well designed speeches, which are conducted after detailed analysis. So even if they do force the ones in charge to solve the problem, the core problem might be hidden to public and left behind. For example, when a governor is reported to have been bribed, the public may be quite angry at first, but their anger can be easily soothed if this governor is immediately punished. However, the main problem is the society lacks a mechanism to prevent governors from being bribed. A reformer can easily point out how we can fix this problem and urge the