Haughty Manny Pacquiao?

From a post in Makoy's Memoirs of a Certified Blogger site -

Yesterday morning while I was doing my exercise, I was tuned in to the radio program of Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon on DZMM TeleRadyo.

One of their topics was about People’s champ Manny Pacquiao. In Korina Sanchez's commentary, a lady reporter was requested by Manny Pacquiao’s camp to be terminated from her work. The reason was for releasing a survey during the last campaign period where the result was his opponent General Santos Rep. Darlene Custodio was leading.

If this is true, what happened to the kind-hearted and humble Manny Pacquiao? Has fame and money corrupted his old good self?

Aside from this issue, he snubbed Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim in his welcome parade in Manila. Snubbing the Manila Mayor is like snubbing the people of Manila. If he is politicking, it’s a bad step that he committed. He should have at least the courtesy to the Mayor.

No wonder you lost in the past election. Wake up Manny Pacquiao!

----------

Other sites have identified the lady reporter to be no other than Korina Sanchez. Manny reportedly went straight to ABS-CBN head honcho Lopez to demand her termination. He was simply ignored. So it was no surprise he went with Solar Sports' and GMA's offer to televise his latest match after having been with ABS-CBN for a long time. The rumored P80 million package deal might have helped him decide as well.

Incidentally that telecast turned off and tuned out a lot of would-be viewers with excessive commercials. GMA reportedly conveniently back out of the industry organization KBP so as not to be restricted by the imposed maximum number of commercials. So the telecast turned out to be a telecast of commercials interspersed with 3 minutes of evasive boxing every now and then.

More significantly with his snub of the Manila parade, Manny did not only snubbed Mayor Lim but snubbed the entire people of Manila. Manny is an adopted son of Manila, with his adoption decreed by then Mayor Atienza, a bitter rival of Mayor Lim. Lim reclaimed his old position by routing Mayor Atienza's son Ali in the last election.