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Philippine President Duterte To Foreign Media: ‘I Fooled You Yet Again!’

December 15, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SINGAPORE (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – As he began his state visit to Singapore, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the foreign media, saying that they are such fools to believe everything he says.

CNN, for one, spent a significant segment of its prime time news reporting on Duterte’s ‘admission’ that as mayor of Davao City, he personally killed drug addicts. Other foreign news outlets also devoted time and space reporting on this latest statement from the popular, albeit controversial president.

“It must be a slow news day,” Duterte said, “that the news media chose to make such a big deal about my recent statement. Have they not learned their lesson yet? I could probably say the end of the world is coming tomorrow and it would immediately make it to their headlines.”

Duterte’s rhetoric has consistently put him and the Philippines on the international stage and has earned for the rogue leader a spot in Forbes’ 2016 list of the most powerful persons in the world.

Donald Trump To Appoint Kanye West As FCC Commissioner

December 13, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

West with the president-elect at Trump Tower

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, New York Bureau) – Many have wondered why Kanye West was seen at the Trump Tower in New York, striking a pose with the president-elect and daughter Ivanka.

Well, wonder no more.

Reliable sources told The Adobo Chronicles that Donald Trump is set to appoint West to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The controversial rap singer will be one of five commissioners.

FCC is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself.

When asked what qualifies West to be an FCC commissioner, Trump said, “He is familiar with media and we’ve been friends for a long time. Ivanka is also good friends with West’s wife, Kim Kardashian. The couple will bring a much-needed celebrity status to my administration, not to mention diversity.”

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sanctioned Over Fake News

December 3, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – In recent weeks, ‘fake’ news on social media has come under heavy attack by those who do not understand the meaning of freedom of speech.

As a result, social media giants Facebook and Google have promised to take concrete measures to deal with the proliferation of fake news, trolls and propaganda on the Internet.

Now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has joined the bandwagon to ferret out fake news, this time on television.

As its first test case, FCC has sanctioned the popular television show, ‘Saturday Night Live’ over its recent episodes featuring then presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

In a strongly-worded memorandum to SNL producers, the FCC warned that it will no longer tolerate the TV show’s fake news episodes which have fooled its audience for a long time.

The FCC now requires SNL to tag all its episodes by flashing a disclaimer that reads, “This is a joke. This is only a joke.”

SNL has appealed the sanction and is scheduled to meet with the FCC on Monday.