Category Archives: Media

International, Media

Maria Ressa Admits: Rappler Doesn’t Have Integrity Of Facts! (Video)

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GENEVA, Switzerland (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – For the first time since her (and her financiers’) systematic and fraudulent campaign to bag the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Ressa admitted that her online news portal Rappler doesn’t have the integrity of facts.

Ressa’s admission all but confirms the consistent results of local and international polls naming Rappler the least-trusted news brand in the Philippines.

Ressa justified Rappler’s disinformation campaign, saying all she wanted was to influence and tarnish the results of the country’s elections to favor her chosen candidates.

Mea Culpa!

Food, International, Media

Market Supply: Move Over Sili, Will Salt Be Next? (Video)

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(Adobo Chronicles’ senior geopolitical correspondent Brian Neyra contributed to this report.)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The irony of ironies! The Philippines is surrounded by sea water, yet it imports 80-90% of its supply of this basic commodity. The country imports at least 850,000 metric tons of salt from mainly Australia and China every year.

Then there are calls to boycott commercial goods from China because of the South China Sea territorial conflict. But then, that boycott may not even be necessary when it comes to salt as there may not be any to import from China.

There is panic over salt in China — people are emptying supermarket shelves and buying out all salt in online stores

The “salt rush” (抢盐潮) started after Japan began dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Chinese are worried that food-grade sea salt will soon be contaminated with radiation.

So is Philippine news media gearing up for its next salty “price and supply” narrative?

“Salt rush in China”
Media, Social Media

X (Formerly Twitter) Takes Down Vice Ganda’s Account!

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SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – It seemed like a cryptic message, but Philippine actress and TV host Vice Ganda was apparently (or so we think) posting a message on her X (former Twitter) account about being the newest endorser of the online shopping portal, Shopee.

Many Shopee shoppers had boycotted the portal after it designated Marcos-supporter Toni Gonzaga as a celebrity endorser. They (meaning, the Dilawan) uninstalled their Shopee apps.

In her X post, Vice Ganda asked netizens if they had already re-installed (their Shopee apps).

But alas, Vice Ganda’s photo which accompanied her X (tweet?) violated the social media portal’s community guidelines against nudity (see photo).

The national daily PhilStar’s X account is also in line for cancellation after it re-published Vice Ganda’s post and photo.