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This chapter deals with a few other scandals not discussed in the earlier chapters to demonstrate why some scandals were chosen and others not. The discussion also returns to identify various types of scandals (sexual, financial, and power maintaining). It also continues by placing the scandals in Chapters 2–8 into these fluid categories. The discussion concludes with the assertion that we as a society are somewhat obsessed with scandals as is evidenced by the popularity of scandal-themed TV shows and the responses of late-night comedy to falling ratings by becoming more political. With our first pop culture president, we are in uncharted territory and it is difficult to say how this seeming forever scandal will affect our democracy.
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I’m using the generic definition of a meme and not simply the more specific form that applies only to graphics used on the Internet to transmit information and feelings.
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These last two shows had their beginnings a bit late to include them in the analyses done in some of the earlier chapters, but are nonetheless worthy of mention as evidence of the expansion of vehicles and growing diversity of voices.
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Twombly, J. (2019). A Conclusion. In: Political Scandal and American Pop Culture. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01340-0_9
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