Rick Sanchez, the CNN anchor who was fired, said Friday that he 'screwed up' last week when he called the comedian Jon Stewart a 'bigot' and made comments that some viewed as anti-Semitic. In the first television interview since his firing a week earlier, Sanchez, who is Cuban-American, also highlighted the lack of diversity on cable news channels like CNN. Speaking on ABC's 'Good Morning America' on Friday, Sanchez observed that there were no members of racial minorities on cable news in prime time. He implied that his anger about that lack of diversity and his exhaustion from work led to the comments about Stewart and the media on a satellite radio show on Sept. 30. 'I said some things that I shouldn't have said,' Sanchez told the ABC interviewer George Stephanopoulos, before apologizing for being 'so careless and so inartful.' Sanchez, who was an afternoon anchor for CNN and, for a short time last summer, a prime-time anchor, was a frequent target of Stewart's jokes on 'The Daily Show.' In the interview last week, Sanchez called Stewart a 'bigot' and, shortly after a radio co-host stated that Stewart was Jewish, said that 'everybody that runs CNN is a lot like Stewart.' Sanchez also repeatedly suggested that he had been the victim of subtle forms of racism, including while at CNN. The next day, Sanchez was fired. CNN, a unit of Time Warner, did not say why. On ABC on Friday, Sanchez took responsibility, saying that he headed into the interview 'with a chip on my shoulder,' feeling 'a little bit angry.' Referring to the weekday prime time programs on cable news, Sanchez said, 'There's not a single Hispanic, a single Asian-American, or a single African-American.' Stephanopoulos mentioned Connie Chung, who is Asian-American and who had a prime-time show on CNN for less than a year in 2002 and 2003. 'There's a lot of people who have had shows a little bit in the past. I'm talking about right now, though, George,' Sanchez said. His prime-time stint ended on Sept. 29, one day before the radio interview. His temporary prime-time show was broadcast for two months while CNN prepared a new talk show featuring Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. Sanchez said, 'I think it's significant, you know, that we do have some representatives.' He was cut off by Stephanopoulos, who asked, 'So you do think you are a victim of prejudice?' 'Well. That's interesting, the way you put that. No. I was wrong to say that. And I was wrong to scapegoat Jon Stewart,' Sanchez said. 'I was feeling a little bit put out. And I was feeling a little sensitive. And I was looking at the landscape and I was seeing that. And I externalized the problem and put it on Jon Stewart's shoulders. And I was wrong to do that.' Richard Prince, a media columnist for the Maynard Institute, said diversity both on- and off-camera lends perspective to a channels' reporting and influences 'which topics get raised and which don't.' Prince added of the television anchors, 'These are people who are ambassadors for stations, and role models.' On ABC, Sanchez said he would be happy to have his job at CNN back, and went out of his way to praise the channel as a 'wonderful, wonderful organization.' This week the chief executive of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, was asked on Fox News if the company would consider rehiring Sanchez. He said: 'He'll have a lot of interest in different channels. And who knows? Maybe someday the right place for him would be one of ours.' During the interview Sanchez referred twice to the new book he has been promoting, 'Conventional Idiocy,' and once even held it up for the camera at length. He had agreed to the radio interview last week because he wanted to promote the book. 