UBut one thing sure is that people who wanted to get some information about education or insurance in newspaper must go to the second page during that period. Apparently, scandals sometimes ruin our lives instead of helping us to solve societal problems.
Finally, and perhaps the most importantly, the author unjustly puts forward the viewpoint that scandals are useful, neglecting their negative influences. Paying attention to scandals, we can discover and then solve many societal problems; paying too much attention however can produce other societal problems for ourselves. But can you imagine the picture of a society which can solve its problems according to scandals but avoid its negative influence?
To sum up, I concede the speaker's claim that scandals can be useful in those areas he/she cited by focusing people's attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. Nonetheless, to some extent, it overrates the weightiness of scandals. In the final analysis, the appropriate attitude, in my appreciation, should be a balanced one that trying to benefit from scandals but not paying undue attention to them.
