MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The quotation marks (open and close quotations) are the most abused special characters in news and social media — all in the name of modern graphics and quote cards.

The Adobo Chronicles collated examples of the disgusting abuse of these traditional marks to indicate a direct quote from someone.

Many media outlets and graphic designers have all but omitted the closing quotation mark, as if they want to add more to quoted statement.

Others have placed the quotation mark on photos instead of text. Still others have placed the quotation marks in the perimeter of boxes or the circumference of circles.

But the winner in all this abuse of use is TV 5 which took out all the text in their quotation marks!

R.I.P., quotation marks!