Scandals- whether in politics, academic, or other area- can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that on speaker or reformer ever could.

  The speaker contends that scandals are useful to call our attention in any fields. Although I concede at some circumstance that scandals were indeed disclosed a lot of problems be covered and propel the development of society. I don't think they are always useful. In fact, some scandals especially which are relate with personal privacy not only bring pains to those celebrities but also do harm to whole society.

 First, I admitted that some scandals really reveal societal problems which be covered for a long time. Once these problems were disclosed, our society will try every endeavor to solve these problems.  After taking a series of measures, the social system will be more sounder. Watergate was a living proof that "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."  It serves as a wake-up call that elected officials are fallible human beings, and will succumb to temptation and abuse power. As a result, the ordinary people recognized the need to modify laws in order to increase supervision on the politicians, to ensure a higher degree of accountability.  Enron-gate, the biggest scandal in American corporate history revealed the illegal behavior of the Enron Company to bribe the Republicans in exchange of the energy policy. After this scandal, however, government started to supervise the big financial companies more carefully, culminating in the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Briefly, although these scandals are always bring negative impacts for the masses, the resulting rectification led to improvement to the government and society.

   But some scandals did not nothing except distract us from pressing societal problems. These kinds of scandals always involve famous people's privacy and have little value. A case lending credence to this point is Clinton sex scandal. At a period of time, people all over the world are talking about the scandal. But this gossip actually added no value to the whole world. People's obsession over the Clinton affair resulted in substantial issues like AIDS and unemployment being neglected. Similarly, present Italian premier Berlusconi also has a lot of ex-marital affairs and became the focus of public. His sex scandals frequently occupied the headlines of newspaper which have should be more important societal problems.

 Sometimes, paparazzi deliberately invaded the privacy of celebrity in order to maximize the profit of media. This behavior always brings troubles to celebrities. Sometimes, it may bring even serious consequences.  For example, some celebrities complained that their privacy be in invaded and said they can not live a life as common human being. And the death of Diana Princess's love affair was directly relate to the paparazzi.

 In summary, we can regard scandals as two types. The purely gossip type of scandal only result in controversial news reports about famous people's lives, and distract us from more important problems. However, scandals about serious illegal issues can serve as wake-up call, and result in new laws or action that can greatly improve our society.