Jack Cafferty
| Jack Cafferty | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 14, 1942 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Commentator |
| Notable credit(s) | CNN's Situation Room |
| Spouse(s) | Carol (died 2008) |
| Family | 4 children, 5 grandchildren |
Jack Cafferty (born December 14, 1942) is a former CNN commentator and occasional host of specials. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room. He left CNN after November 15, 2012.
Cafferty started his career in Reno, Nevada in 1960. In the mid-1970s he hosted a daytime talk show "Cafferty & Company" in Kansas City. He became the news director and co-anchor for the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1977, Cafferty began to anchor national and local programs in New York including Strictly Business, Live at Five and the Scarborough-Cafferty Report. He remained with WNBC-TV for eleven years and anchored Strictly Business until 1989. From 1989 to 1992 Cafferty was an anchor for WNYW-TV's Newsline New York and News at 7 on Fox 5. In the 1990s, Cafferty became a business reporter during his 1992–1998 tenure as a News at 10 anchor on New York's WPIX-TV.
In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room, CNN's weekday afternoon newscast. Cafferty also formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, American Morning. On The Cafferty File, his nightly segment on The Situation Room, he offers commentary and personal opinions.
In October 2006, Cafferty hosted a five-part miniseries on CNN titled Broken Government detailing problems with the two political parties, government bureaucracy and the federal court system. Viewer e-mail messages replaced the news crawl that usually appears on the bottom of the screen.
Cafferty has earned many distinctions in his career, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, an Emmy award and the New York Associated Press State Broadcasters Award.
Cafferty is the author of the book It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America, published on September 10, 2007 by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a satirical critique of political and social issues, including the long arm of big business, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina, expanding on many of themes covered on Cafferty's Situation Room segment and chastising the growing culture of sensationalism and tabloid journalism in modern news media.
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