Category Archives: Media

Pinoy Ako Blog’s Jover Laurio To Return Inquirer Filipino Of The Year Award

B4A3ECA1-EF70-403B-9F9F-2E64AB57CA4F.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Now that the UST Alumni Association President has resigned and Mocha Uson has offered to return her Thomasian Alumni Award for Government Service, Pinoy Ako Blog’s Jovier Laurio told The Adobo Chronicles that she is also returning her ‘Filipino of the Year’ Award to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Fair and square!

 

 

 

 

Raissa Robles Is U.P.’s Lifetime Achievement Awardee For Fake News

D2C4970E-60C0-4268-86B2-55D91FA9E4D2QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Just moments after she criticized the U.S.T. Alumni Association’s choice of Asec Mocha Uson as the 2018 Outstanding Alumnus for Government Service, blogger and gossip extraordinaire Raissa Robles received good news from her alma mater, the University of the Philippines (U.P.).

The good news: the U.P. Alumni Association has named her the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Awardee for Fake News.

Robles graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English Literature, major in Imaginative Writing. She’d rather not say what year.

In modern parlance, ‘Fake News.’

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Leads The Charge To Push For Freedom Of Spit

0ADFD3C2-58EA-4F88-9C89-D839F7CB3309.jpegQUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Promising that “we will hold the line,” Rappler CEO Maria Ressa spoke at a massive rally held this weekend at the Boy Scout Circle on Timog Avenue in Quezon City.

In attendance at the protest were members of the news media, student journalists, the police as well as fish ball and kwek kwek street vendors.  It was a mass action like no other.

Despite the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to revoke Rappler’s license as a media company for violation of the Constitution, and subsequent unrelated subpoenas she received, Ressa wask firm in her personal commitment as well as that of her online news company, to keep fighting for Freedom of Spit.