America’s Addiction to Scandal
Our mass media-driven culture has ushered in a unique era that boasts an unrelenting and instantaneous flow of information. There are many advantages to having quick, easy access to the entire world, and I would never suggest going back to the way things were. However, good things can be and almost always are abused, and I’m concerned that we’ve allowed our media fixation to give rise to an obsession with scandal—at the expense of maintaining focus on what’s truly important.