Jack Cafferty Biography
Jack Cafferty is a former CNN pundit who now hosts specials on occasion. Cafferty joined The Situation Room in the summer of 2005. He resigned from CNN on November 15, 2012.
How old is Jack Cafferty? – Age
He is 80 years old as of 14 December 2022. He was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jack Cafferty Wife
He married Carol Cafferty from 1973 till her death in 2008. Carol Cafferty, Cafferty’s wife of 35 years, died that day of unexplained reasons, according to the September 5, 2008 broadcast of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Cafferty admitted on his CNN blog that his choice to stop drinking was influenced by his wife.
Jack Cafferty Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Jack Cafferty China
In 2008, CNN Situation Room host Jack Cafferty made a contentious remark concerning the US-China relationship, referring to the Chinese government as the same gang of goons and thugs it has been for the past 50 years. The Legal Immigrant Association demanded a formal apology, stating that it was anti-Chinese and exacerbated negative attitudes toward Chinese and Chinese Americans. Cafferty later emphasized that he was speaking to the Chinese government, not Chinese people or Chinese Americans. On April 14, CNN made a contentious apology, but protesters asked that Cafferty be fired from the network. On April 26, 2008, a demonstration was staged in front of CNN headquarters in Atlanta, and many thousand Chinese and Chinese Americans rallied in front of a CNN office in San Francisco. CNN President Jim Walton apologized on behalf of CNN to the Chinese people, but refused any apologies to the Chinese government, noting that it was intended only for the Chinese people.
Jack Cafferty CNN
Cafferty joined CNN’s The Situation Room, a weekday afternoon show, in the summer of 2005. Cafferty previously co-anchored CNN’s weekday morning show, American Morning. He provides insight and personal ideas on The Cafferty File, his nightly feature on The Situation Room.
Cafferty hosted a five-part CNN miniseries titled Broken Government in October 2006, which detailed problems with the two political parties, government bureaucracy, and the federal court system. Viewer e-mail messages took the place of the customary news crawl at the bottom of the screen.
Jack Cafferty Books
Cafferty is the author of It’s Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Hurting America, which was released by John Wiley & Sons on September 10, 2007. The book is a satirical critique of political and social issues such as the long arm of big business, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina, expanding on many of the themes discussed on Cafferty’s Situation Room segment and criticizing the growing culture of sensationalism and tabloid journalism in modern news media.
Parts of the book are autobiographical, chronicling Cafferty’s youth, military experience, and entry into journalism. To quote Cafferty: “Very little of my back story qualifies as Hallmark Card material, but it may help you to make sense of the way I see and interpret what’s going on around me.” Wiley published Cafferty’s second book, Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream, on March 9, 2009.
Jack Cafferty Career
Cafferty began his career as a children’s show host at KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada in 1961. He later worked as the station’s production manager at KCRL-TV before moving on to the daytime chat show Cafferty & Company on WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1974, he joined WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, as a weeknight co-anchor and later as news director.
Cafferty joined WNBC-TV in New York City in 1977 as a weekend and evening co-anchor on the station’s 6:00 p.m. newscast. Cafferty joined WNBC-TV’s 5:00 p.m. weeknight newscast in 1979, and the following year he was joined by Sue Simmons. Their show was renamed Live at Five, and its mix of news, features, and celebrity interviews proved popular throughout the 1980s. Due to a contract dispute, Cafferty departed WNBC-TV around Thanksgiving 1989 and joined rival WNYW, where he anchored the Fox flagship station’s 7:00 p.m. news and a short-lived late night show, Newsline New York. Cafferty joined to then-independent station WPIX in 1992, where she co-anchored the 10:00 p.m. broadcast until joining CNN in 1998.
Cafferty joined CNN’s The Situation Room, a weekday afternoon show, in the summer of 2005. Cafferty previously co-anchored CNN’s weekday morning show, American Morning. He provides insight and personal ideas on The Cafferty File, his nightly feature on The Situation Room.
Cafferty hosted a five-part CNN miniseries titled Broken Government in October 2006, which detailed problems with the two political parties, government bureaucracy, and the federal court system. Viewer e-mail messages took the place of the customary news crawl at the bottom of the screen. Cafferty’s career has been marked by numerous honors, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, an Emmy Award, and the New York Associated Press State Broadcasters Award.
