The Manila Times

Can DU30 run the nation without headlines?

- FRANCISCO S. TATAD

ASIDE from the summary drug killings, which, according to TIME magazine, have now reached 1,800, President Rodrigo Dutertes problems have been the result of careless words rather has talked through the oftentimes mindless and undiscrimi­nating media, using inappropri­ate language to bludgeon some of his

These include the Ambassador of the United States, the UN rapporteur on summary executions, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the chairperso­n of the Senate committee on justice and - joys the thunder of his expletives, and their effect on the media and the public, and has not noticed

Justice for his rash statement threatenin­g Martial Law if the police were required to produce warrants before going after drug that his threat to withdraw from the world body because of its “meddling” in the summary killing of drug suspects was nothing

But he has refused to apologize for calling the US ambassador a remains locked in a propaganda her current Senate inquiry into

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