Category Archives: The Media

Cynthia Patag And Jim Paredes To Co-Host New ABS-CBN Talk Show

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Patag, left, and Paredes

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Retiree entertainment personalities Cynthia Patag and Jim Paredes have been tapped by ABS-CBN to co-host a new talk show called “Dilawan,” according to reliable sources who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by their employer television network.

The comedienne and former Apo Hiking Society singer-member are known to be pro-Aquino and anti-Duterte as can be seen from their respective social media pages.  They have been critical of every thing that’s related to the current president and all praises for their fallen hero, NoyNoy Aquino. They just can’t move on.

The new prime-time show will feature anti-Duterte guests.  It will replace the Kris Aquino-Boy Abunda show, “Aquino and Abunda Tonight.”

The decision to replace the Aquino-Abunda show with the Patag-Paredes show came after Kris Aquino formalized her departure from ABS-CBN and her move to the rival network GMA-7.

Paredes, who lives in Australia, will be doing the show with Patag via Skype.

The new show’s premiere guests are Senator Leila De Lima and singer Leah Navarro.

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Time Magazine Names AT&T 2016 Person Of The Year

img_6613NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – If, by virtue of Citizens United, corporations are people, then Time magazine has all the right to name a corporation as its 2016 Person of the Year.  And so it did.

Just days after it was announced that AT&T is buying Time Warner — the magazine’s former parent company — for a whopping $85 Billion, Time moved up its timeline for deciding on the recipient of this annual honor.

While critics say that it was a conflict of interest for Time to name the new owner of its former parent company as Person of the Year, the editors maintained that the award is based on the impact of a person (in this case, a company) on the daily lives of people across the globe.

“What impact could be greater on people than having their telephone company influence their thoughts and opinions, even their choice of entertainment,”  the editors said.

This will also be the first in the history of Time magazine that its cover is actually an advertisement. The cover does not contain any text or teaser, just the plain old logo of AT&T.

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Philippines Senator De Lima Likens Herself To Harry Potter

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Harry Potter played by Daniel Radcliffe,  left, and De Lima

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte may have drawn some parallel between himself and Adolf Hitler, Senator Leila De Lima, former Justice Secretary under the Aquino administration, has likened herself to Harry Potter, that fictional darling of awizard created by author J.K. Rowling.

The lady senator made this comparison in a recent speech.  

She has been linked to illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison (National Penitentiary) during her tenure with the Justice Department.  She has denied these allegations.

The Adobo Chronicles convened its top editors and writers to try to decipher what De Lima meant when she compared herself to Potter.

We couldn’t find any parallel except that De Lima and Potter both wore neck scarves. And stylish eyeglasses.

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