‘Career diplomats’ statement,’ a piece of Yellow fake news

Rigoberto D. Tiglao, manilatimes.net

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THE so-called “career diplomats’ statement” asking for Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Cayetano’s resignation was ... a skillfully crafted and placed fake news. ...

While the success of this fake news in being believed even by veteran journalists is a wake-up call for Cayetano that he isn’t being impressive in his job, to say the least, or that his “public diplomacy [JB emphasis] officers” (i.e., PR men) are incompetent, we have to expose vigorously this “career diplomats” garbage for what it is: the revival of the group of die-hard Yellows [see] in the foreign affairs department. ...