MANDALUYONG, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Mandaluyong Bureau) – It was eerily quiet at the Rappler headquarters in Mandaluyong on Monday, July 24.

The least-trusted news brand in the Philippines just couldn’t get its reporters and editors to come up with a juicy, intriguing story for its primary headline. It was definitely a slow news day.

While most news media were at the Batasang Pambansa covering President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ second State of the National Address, the Rapplerettes were holed up in their cubicles waiting for that one story that would fit into their biased reporting, one that’s always critical of the administration.

Finally, at mid-afternoon, a Rappler reporter chanced upon something in the live news feed she was watching on YouTube. And Hallelujah! Rappler had its main story of the day: