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Reuters 2023 PH Media Trust Survey: Rappler Maintains Its Standing!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Let’s give it to Rappler for being consistent and holding the line on being the least trusted news brand in the Philippines.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University has just released its 2023 survey on media trust for the Philippines.

As expected, Maria Ressa’s Rappler is at the bottom of the heap. Just like in previous years.

Congratulations are in order!

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2023/philippines

Language, Media

Independence Day 2023: Freedom From Grammatical Blunder

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While the entire Philippine nation was commemorating the 125th Independence Day, the mainstream news media were thinking of breakfast, and perhaps a cup of real strong Barako coffee.

Inquirer, ABS-CBN News and GMA News were all reporting on the Independence Day message of President Bongbong Marcos in which he said, “The heroes of our liberation would be proud to know that we have thrown off the ominous yoke of domination.”

In unison, the news outlets quoted Marcos as having said “yolk.”

The Adobo Chronicles could not independently confirm whether or not the news outlets preferred (egg) yolk from free-range chicken.

“Yoke” is a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull.

(Melchor Vergara contributed to this report)

International, Media

RAPPLER: Like Maria Ressa, Like Lian Buan

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Once a Rapplerette, always a Rapplerette. Or better still, like Maria Ressa, like Lian Buan.

Buan, who is on sabbatical, boasted of her recent meeting with ICC judge Solomy Balungi Bossa where she provided the latter with imagined news about the Philippines, particularly during the past Duterte administration.

As if what she says matters, Buan emulated her boss Ressa who made it to the Nobel Prize through her lies.

Moreover, Buan seemed to forget that what she says over wine and cocktails doesn’t hold in the court of law.

Is a declaration of being a persona non grata awaiting Buan’s return to the Philippines?