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

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There are plenty of ways or source for humankind to bring attention and reform and scandals do not fits on it in any way.

Scandal itself is a negative word and people often see it negatively. If anything people take it negatively how does it bring benefit to them? Scandal is anything that a person or any organization do which is not good for society.

It’s often defamed people. People often look with abhorrence to those people who are in part of any scandal. Sometimes they also harassed by people or by the society which is not desirable.

For example, Women who are often victim of sexual scandal most of the time harass by people in the society.

There are plenty of alternatives to bring attention to people. Now people have internet, tv, newspaper etc these can be a good option to gather attention. There are plenty of options to bring beneficial and useful to mankind. It should explain to people what is good for them and what is bad. By ruining someone's life to bring attention can't be an option.

But sometime scandal can be useful for example, Watergate scandal in the USA caused the resignation of president Richard Nixon. But it also defames the politics of the USA which is not desirable.

Scandals aren't good for society. People should beware of it and negative work isn't a good source for any benefit or attention