This piece is a part of a news analysis series on the first 12 months of the Duterte administration. Fatigued Palace, baffled mediaThe firebrand Philippine president presented a whole different ballgame for the Palace communications team and journalists alike. The Palace even urged journalists not to take the president literally and instead use “creative imagination” in interpreting him. “If you have already a very colorful president like Duterte who's already world famous or world notorious, you actually have to have the complete opposite. “I think the anti-American rants of Duterte, I see some shades of Hugo Chavez there so I won't be surprised.

Source: Philippine Star July 06, 2017 05:20 UTC