CNN TURNS 35 ON JUNE 1ST: IF ONLY FRIENDS COULD SEE IT NOW

Don Lemon (Photo source: GQ)
Don Lemon (Photo source: GQ)

ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles) – CNN, the first and most respected 24-hour cable news network, launched on June 1, 1980. On that day, 35 years later, the network will look back at the biggest stories in the network’s history.

Here are the highlights of those amazing 35 years:

  • Don Lemon, telling black people they shouldn’t wear baggy pants, use the N-word, litter, drop out of school, or have kids out of wedlock.
  • Don Lemon, suggesting that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have been kidnapped by a higher power or swallowed by a black hole.
  • Don Lemon, suggesting to a rape victim that she could’ve easily shut down the alleged rape by biting Bill Cosby’s penis.
  • Don Lemon, reporting from Ferguson, telling viewers about the smell of marijuana in the air.
  • Don Lemon, after being photographed for a feature article on GQ magazine, asking the photographer if he does “nudes.”
  • Anderson Cooper’s greatest moments: his uncontrollable giggles.
  • As for Wolf Blitzer — now don’t get us started.

Happy Birthday, CNN!

MAJOR PHILIPPINE NEWSPAPER ACCUSED OF SEXISM

imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – A major daily newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), has been accused of sexism after it published a provocative photo of a woman in her bikini on its front page.

Senator Pia Cayetano criticized PDI for publishing the photo, describing it as “degredation and commodification of women.” Many women’s groups joined Cayetano in condemning PDI.

Interestingly enough,  the sexism charge didn’t come from Cayetano or the women’s groups. Rather, it came from gay male and straight male groups that accused PDI of not being “fair and balanced.”

The groups told The Adobo Chronicles, “Why do they always publish provocative photos of women, but not men?  “The newspaper is obviously biased against men, and that is plain and simple sexism,” they added.

Responding to the criticism, PDI apologized to its readers and promised to feature a provocative male photo in one of its future issues. “We may have to wait until the next male beauty pageant,” the PDI said.

TOP TEN REASONS GAY MARRIAGE WILL NEVER BE LEGAL IN THE PHILIPPINES

Photo source: rappler.com
Photo source: rappler.com

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – A young Filipino  lawyer — named Jesus —  has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to lift same-sex marriage prohibitions in the country’s almost 3-decade-old Family Code.

Jesus Nicardo Falcis, who identified himself as openly gay in his May 18 petition, argued that limiting civil marriages and the rights that go with such unions to heterosexuals violate the constitutionally guaranteed protection for equal treatment, undue interference to liberty rights, and marital autonomy.

Ireland — a Catholic country like the Philippines — just became the first in the world to legalize gay marriage by popular vote.  Will the Philippines be next? Unlikely.

Here are the top ten reasons gay marriage will never be legal in the Philippines:

  1. It’s in the books, but in actuality, there is no such thing as ‘Separation of Church and State’
  2. Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP)
  3. Senator Tito Sotto
  4. Congressman Manny Pacquiao
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