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===Comments regarding CNN=== ===Comments regarding CNN===
During an interview on ]'s radio show ], on September 30, 2010, Sanchez first called Jon Stewart a "bigot", and then said that "everybody who runs CNN" is "a lot like Stewart"<ref name="CBS">{{cite news|title=Rick Sanchez Out at CNN After Saying Jon Stewart a Bigot, Suggesting Network is Run by Jews|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018334-503544.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Hunter|title=CNN anchor fired after Jon Stewart rant |url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39464138/ns/today-entertainment/|accessdate=1 October 2010|newspaper=MSNBC|date=1 October 2010}}</ref> (which was regarded by major American news organizations as a reference to Jewish ethnicity) and remarked with sarcasm that Jews were a "very powerless people." In the day following his remarks,<ref>{{cite news|title=CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsKwGqhY3jM5l3a5dDTb-bWGEk7gD9IJ66800?docId=D9IJ66800|accessdate=1 October 2010|newspaper=Associated Press|date=1 October 2010}}</ref> CNN announced that Sanchez was no longer employed with the company.<ref name="CBS" /> He is alleged to have believed that his previous re-shuffle from CNN's 8PM time-slot, which he temporarily anchored, and replacement by the new CNN show ], was discriminatory based on his ethnicity, on the part of CNN's leadership. His statements during the radio show were made during a discussion concerning the extent which Jews, as compared to Latinos, in the United States face overtly or covertly discriminatory attitudes. Sanchez also vented his negative feelings about ]'s portrayal of him in Stewart's news-oriented show on ], '']''.<ref>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39464138/ns/today-entertainment/</ref> During an interview on ]'s radio show ], on September 30, 2010, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot." Dominick suggested that Stewart, who is Jewish, is also a minority. Sanchez responded, "yeah, very powerless people. He's such a minority. I mean, you know, please. What are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart. And to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?"<ref>, MSNBC, Hunter Walker, October 1, 2010</ref><ref name="CBS">{{cite news|title=Rick Sanchez Out at CNN After Saying Jon Stewart a Bigot, Suggesting Network is Run by Jews|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018334-503544.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Hunter|title=CNN anchor fired after Jon Stewart rant |url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39464138/ns/today-entertainment/|accessdate=1 October 2010|newspaper=MSNBC|date=1 October 2010}}</ref> In the day following his remarks,<ref>{{cite news|title=CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsKwGqhY3jM5l3a5dDTb-bWGEk7gD9IJ66800?docId=D9IJ66800|accessdate=1 October 2010|newspaper=Associated Press|date=1 October 2010}}</ref> CNN announced that Sanchez was no longer employed with the company.<ref name="CBS" /> He is alleged to have believed that his previous re-shuffle from CNN's 8PM time-slot, which he temporarily anchored, and replacement by the new CNN show ], was discriminatory based on his ethnicity, on the part of CNN's leadership. His statements during the radio show were made during a discussion concerning the extent which Jews, as compared to Latinos, in the United States face overtly or covertly discriminatory attitudes. Sanchez also vented his negative feelings about ]'s portrayal of him in Stewart's news-oriented show on ], '']''.<ref>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39464138/ns/today-entertainment/</ref>ye


== Personal life == == Personal life ==

Revision as of 06:24, 2 October 2010

Not to be confused with Ricky Sánchez.
Rick Sanchez
Sanchez at Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference - June 2009
Born (1958-07-03) July 3, 1958 (age 66)
Guanabacoa, Cuba
OccupationFormer Anchor/Correspondent for CNN
WebsiteStaff Biography on CNN.com

Ricardo León "Rick" Sánchez de Reinaldo (born July 3, 1958) is a Cuban-American TV news anchor. On CNN, he hosted Rick's List and served as a contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° and CNN International, where he frequently reported and translated between English and Spanish. Sanchez was fired from CNN in October 2010 after a radio interview in which he claimed that comedian Jon Stewart is a "bigot" and that CNN was run by people "a lot like Stewart." Sanchez' statements were construed by CBS News as an assertion that Jews control CNN and other networks.

Early life

Sanchez was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba. The son of Cuban political exiles who came to the United States in the 1950s from Cuba, Sanchez grew up in Hialeah, Florida, a suburb of Miami. He attended Mae M. Walters Elementary School, Henry H. Filer Middle School, and Hialeah High School, graduating in 1977. He accepted a football scholarship to Minnesota State University Moorhead. He transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on a CBS/WCCO Journalism Scholarship in 1979.

He worked as a delivery truck loader and as a City of Hialeah Parks and Recreation youth mentor.

Career

Sanchez began his broadcasting career at KCMT in Alexandria, Minnesota, while still in college. He was hired at WSVN (formerly WCKT) in Miami in 1982 and became a weekend anchor shortly thereafter. He worked briefly for KHOU in Houston, Texas before returning to an afternoon anchor position with WSVN. Sanchez was hired at MSNBC in 2001.

In 2003, Sanchez left MSNBC to return to the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale TV market. While there, he hosted a local talk show on WTVJ Sanchez later anchored on then-WB affiliated WBZL (now WSFL) until he joined CNN in 2004. He won an Emmy Award in 1983 for his series titled "When I left Cuba."

Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of Hurricane Andrew and on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported on wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime in Haiti.

For eight months, in the interim between Paula Zahn and Campbell Brown, he anchored Out in the Open at 8 p.m. He has also filled in for Anderson Cooper and Ali Velshi on Your Money on occasion. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanchez joined the network in September 2004.

Sanchez was involved in the network’s Peabody Award winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He anchored the network's coverage for eight hours as the levees broke in New Orleans, Louisiana, and began filing live reports from the flooding the next day. On January 18, 2010 he began hosting his own show, Rick's List.

Sanchez hosted two hours of live news coverage on CNN, during which viewer comments about the day's news stories from MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter are displayed both on large plasma screens in the studio and scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Sanchez's use of social networking tools to create a citizen-driven news program has generated mostly positive feedback.

Comments regarding CNN

During an interview on Sirius XM's radio show Stand Up With Pete Dominick, on September 30, 2010, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot." Dominick suggested that Stewart, who is Jewish, is also a minority. Sanchez responded, "yeah, very powerless people. He's such a minority. I mean, you know, please. What are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart. And to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?" In the day following his remarks, CNN announced that Sanchez was no longer employed with the company. He is alleged to have believed that his previous re-shuffle from CNN's 8PM time-slot, which he temporarily anchored, and replacement by the new CNN show Parker Spitzer, was discriminatory based on his ethnicity, on the part of CNN's leadership. His statements during the radio show were made during a discussion concerning the extent which Jews, as compared to Latinos, in the United States face overtly or covertly discriminatory attitudes. Sanchez also vented his negative feelings about Jon Stewart's portrayal of him in Stewart's news-oriented show on Comedy Central, The Daily Show.ye

Personal life

Sanchez and his wife, Suzanne, have four children: three boys and a girl, Ricky Jr., Robby, Remington, and Savannah. They have a dog and two turtles.

Drunk driving

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium (then known as Joe Robbie Stadium) and left the scene, returning two hours later. Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died in an assisted living facility on November 2, 1995. Sanchez had just left the NFL football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles with his father when the accident occurred. Police breathalyzer results determined that Sanchez's blood alcohol level was above the legal limit for driving. He was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to driving under the influence (DUI).

References

  1. Stelter, Brian (October 1, 2010). "CNN Fires Rick Sanchez for Remarks in Interview". New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
  2. ^ Madison, Lucy (October 1, 2010). "Rick Sanchez Out at CNN After Saying Jon Stewart a Bigot, Suggesting Network is Run by Jews". CBS News. Retrieved October 1, 2010. Cite error: The named reference "CBS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Anchors & Reporters: Rick Sanchez". CNN. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Getting To Know....Rick Sanchez". All Things CNN. March 12, 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  5. Cook, Ruth (November 24, 1986). "Magazine article on Rick Sanchez misses the mark". The Miami News. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  6. Jicha, Tom (October 18, 2009). "5Qs: Rick Sanchez, always in the news". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  7. Eggerton, John (April 11, 2001). "MSNBC signs Sanchez". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  8. Rick Sanchez Blog Profile
  9. CNN anchor fired after Jon Stewart rant, MSNBC, Hunter Walker, October 1, 2010
  10. Walker, Hunter (1 October 2010). "CNN anchor fired after Jon Stewart rant". MSNBC. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  11. "CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot". Associated Press. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  12. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39464138/ns/today-entertainment/
  13. Rowe, Sean (August 7, 1991). "The Forgotten Man". Miami New Times. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  14. Roth, Zachary (October 9, 2007). "Rick Sanchez Is CNN's Teflon Man!". The New York Observer. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  15. Miami Herald Archives

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