Scandals may be regarded as political, sexual, moral, literary or artistic but often spread from one realm into another.
Contemporary media has the capacity to spread knowledge of a scandal further than in previous centuries and public interest has encouraged many cases of confected scandals relating to well-known people as well as genuine scandals relating to politics and business.
Whistleblowers may be protected by laws which are used to obtain information of misdeeds and acts detrimental to their establishments. However, the possibility of scandal has always created a tension between society’s efforts to reveal wrong doing and its desire to cover them up.
