Yesterday we started class by throwing out names of familiar political scandals since Watergate. We were able to come up with a decent list, but it was far from extensive. One look at our list and it was clear that the majority of recent scandals are sex scandals.
I did a bit of research myself, and came across ABC's Top 10 Political Scandals of the Decade (2009). These 10 scandals included a few of the familiar scandals that landed on our list, but for the most part featured a whole bunch of scandals we did not even think of. And these are just the decade's top 10. I flipped through the scandals to see what genre the majority of the scandals fall into. Not surprisingly, of the 10 scandals, 7 are sex scandals and only 3 are political in nature.
Well, I guess that's really what the public is interested in reading about. Nothing sells newspapers like a good sex scandal!
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