Duterte to Press: 'No media interviews until the end of my term!

President-choose Rodrigo Duterte said that he would no more allow meetings until the end of his term, obviously firm on his choice to separation himself from columnists in the wake of drawing fire for his announcement on media killings.

"Sorry ha, talagang ano… blacklist talaga," he said in a video posted on Facebook on Monday by TV5 reporter France Noguera. Asked until when he would blacklist meets, the Davao City leader said it would be "until the end of my term." "Ayoko na. Ang meeting maraming mali, maraming reactions. No meeting, no feedback. No wrong articulation, no nothing. I'll quiets down, ayoko na talaga," he said. A week ago, Duterte's official partner Bong Go said the chairman would incidentally quit holding public interviews keeping in mind the end goal to evade botches. Rather, all announcements of Duterte will be coursed through the administration telecom company PTV-4.

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders issued an announcement a week ago to blacklist the intense talking chairman after he said that numerous columnists in the nation had been executed in light of the fact that they were degenerate. Duterte, consequently, declined to apologize furthermore challenged the media to quit covering him. He likewise drew reactions in the wake of whistling GMA-7 columnist Mariz Umali in one of his question and answer sessions a week ago. At his triumph party last Saturday, Duterte in his discourse likewise censured a writer for getting some information about his restorative condition in a past meeting. "How is the vagina of your better half? Is it rank? On the other hand not foul? Give me the report. Bastos eh," the leader said, finding the inquiry hostile. He said the media were continually asking "audacious inquiries." Source: Inquirer