Well if they were entirely interchangable we would expect rough parity in the usage There is no such parity e g the 543 to 4 ratio If there was some concern within the mainstream media NPR WaPo etc regarding some sort of bias with the term we would naturally expect less usage of the term IRS scandal What we find instead is the vast usage of scandal almost to the exclusion of other terms Moreover the term IRS scandal is the greatest not as mere descriptors but also in article titles and in tags that is to say in how the media identifies the event We have a policy I suggest that perhaps it might be time we start following it