Korina Sanchez still in ABS-CBN after tiff with Anderson Cooper
After she found herself in hot water in the wake of supertyphoon Yolanda, ABS-CBN anchor Korina Sanchez is officially vacating the radio talk show where she criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
Starting Monday, “Sakto”, a new program hosted by Amy Perez and Marc Logan, will air on the Monday-to-Friday 10-11AM time slot on DZMM that had been occupied by “Rated Korina” since January 2012.
According to a Twitter post by ABS-CBN ad and promo head Eric John Salut on Saturday, Sanchez will continue all her other duties as an ABS-CBN broadcaster:
Sanchez spent the holidays in the United States. On Thursday, talent manager Girlie Rodis posted on Instagram a photo of Sanchez with ABS-CBN TV director Leo Katigbak said to be taken in her New York flat.
On November 13 — five days after Yolanda devastated most of central Philippines — Sanchez spoke out against Cooper’s on-the-ground coverage of the typhoon’s aftermath in Tacloban, which was highly critical of the national government.
“Itong si Anderson Cooper, sabi wala daw government presence sa Tacloban. Mukhang hindi niya alam ang sinasabi niya. (This Anderson Cooper, he said there is no government presence in Tacloban. It seems he doesn’t know what he is saying.),” said Sanchez, the wife of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.
Her remark met a chorus of disapproval in social media, as several celebrities lauded Cooper’s work.
The next day, Cooper replied directly to her comment and urged her to go to Tacloban.
That same morning, ABS-CBN reporter Jasmin Romero pinch-hit for Sanchez on “Rated Korina” as the latter flew to another disaster-stricken city in Leyte, Ormoc, and reported live from there that evening on “TV Patrol”.
That weekend, rumors swirled that Sanchez had been suspended by ABS-CBN, which issued no official statement on her absence from her radio show.
She swiftly denied the rumors, claiming she was only on leave from the show while shooting material for “Rated K”, her weekly magazine show on ABS-CBN.
Sanchez returned briefly to “Rated Korina” in early December, but offered no explanation for her lengthy absence.
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