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

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

There is no denying the power of scandals. Whether the basis of the scandal is genuine or simply based on slander, it has the ability to focus our attention to many important issues facing our society. However not all scandals are useful. Indeed certain times, scandals could even backfire and cause damaging consequences to individuals involved, as well as setting back the development of our humanity.

Without doubt, scandals have the power to focus our attentions to pressing matter of our lives. By exposing previous unknown facts about public figures or organizations, it has the potential to...

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Sentence: By exposing previous unknown facts about public figures or organizations, it has the potential to upend our complacent view of our lives, and reveal a host of problems that we simply haven't noticed before.
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Sentence: Similar scandals, from e coli infected cabbage to mad-cow disease inducing cattle feed, are continuing to make sure the public continues to monitor the food industry, an effect no amount of public speech or pamphlet could bring about.
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