“When I walked in, they told me it was going to be a bad day in the newsroom,” Manny Ramos told the S.F. Chronicle. “Then they told me it was going to be a bad day for me, too.”
Manny, an Emmy-award winning reporter who has been at KPIX-5 for 28 years, was given the pink slip yesterday.
Anchor Maria Arita, who joined CBS11 in Dec. 2003, was also laid-off, but on Friday. She co-anchored the station’s first high-definition newscast. She previously worked as general assignment reporter for the NBC station in Dallas, for E! News Daily and hosted the nationally-syndicated show “Hispanics Today.”
I reported earlier this morning that Rafael Romo, a reporter at WBBM-2 in Chicago was also a casualty.
I am actually quite relieved KPIX axed Manny Ramos. I had the unfortunate occasion of running into the man, and I found him to be quite aloof, pretentious, and snotty…not a good role model for the Hispanic community. I’m Jewish, and every time I’d see him on KPIX news, I just wanted to turn the channel, for I knew who he really was. My grandmother always said, quoting from the Torah: “Pride always comes before the fall….”, and perhaps now that he finds himself working for a station in Fresno, he’ll humble himself and reassess his narcissistic & haughty ways. I am just writing the truth and nothing more.