7/21/2019 My Essay for GRE

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Scandals are useful because they focus our attentions on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever

could.

Over the ages, our society has shown a morbid interest in matters that seem shocking and often are at a

tangent with the norms of the society. These scandals are hyped by the media and more often than not, the

information provided to the public is one-sided. Thus, it can be stated without doubt that scandals have anadverse effect on the society and its tenants and thus less focus should be laid on them.

It may seem at first glance that scandals do serve as a means of getting information across to the public and it

should not matter as to how the information is getting across. The knowledge about a recent scandal is no

doubt pervasive, encompassing all strata of the society. While Scandals are uick to spread, the facts of the

matter at hand often become obfuscated as the titbits of information are passed from one ear to another.

!inally any semblance of truth about the reality of the scandal is lost and only the morbid fascination about

the persons involved remains. The people talking about a scandal are not concerned about the social cause or

its emancipation. "ather they find #oy in knowing that someone has #ust falled in the public eye.

$nother fallacy regarding scandals is the fact that people forget about a scandal as soon as a fresh new

scandal comes into e%istence. In retrospection of the &onica 'ewinsky case in ())*, after +ill lintons

resignation, how many of the gossip mongers were actually concerned about the state of the people involved.

Similarly in India one of the greatest political scams, the * scam, took place. /owever soon the public

interest waned and now the case languishes in court and inuires are still being conducted.

In leu of the fact that people become famous, albeit effervescently, many persons have tried to surround

themselves in the limelight gained by creating scandals. 0ublic brawls, rash statements given out to the

public, even releasing compromising material about oneself seems to be all in vogue, #ust to create a scandal

and thus gain the public l imelight. $s a result of these activities, actual scandals, that do deserve the public

limelight, are neglected and thus never gain the attention that they warrant.

$lso, it may sometime happens that people who are not guilt may receive the ire of the public #ust because the

have been painted so by the dogmatic views of the media. 1!ickle1 is a uality that Shakespear used to

descibe the mood of the crowd in 2ulius easar. The public is often decieved by the inciting views presented to

them by the media and thus come to a conclusion even before a sentence has been carried out by the court.

This often makes unbiased court proceedings from taking place, with the victim already being culpated by the

media and the public.

Thus, in conclusion I would say that scandals do invite the public interest and may occasionally serve as a

means for spreading information about a problem, /owever this solution is not permanent and will always

reuired to be buttressed by the works of public speakers and reformers. Only these speakers can actuallyreach the hearts of the public and thus truly gain public attention.