We are going to have to accept a decline in our standard of living in this country. Jack, you dont tell people that a career in the performing arts disqualifies them from seeking elected office, and I wont say publicly that your being convicted of leaving the scene of an accident in which you struck a cyclist and then ran two red lights while you were pursued by the police and were subsequently ordered to serve 70 hours of community service back in May of 2003 disqualifies you from posing as a Man of the People on a major cable news network. Do Obama & Co. have their priorities right? The previous high, according to the New York Times, came in 2008 when the Red Cross raised $190,000 after Hurricane Ike. That's why I asked [CNN anchor] Wolf Blitzer on the air, Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead? CNN's Jack Cafferty on Thursday afternoon managed to use the Minneapolis bridge collapse tragedy to take another shot at the Iraq war as he pointed out how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost $600 billion and featured an e-mailer who complained spending on infrastructure is a drop in the bucket compared to $450 billion wasted in Iraq. In his new book, Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our Dream, CNN's irascible commentator takes on the economy, foreign policy, education, health care, immigration, energy, the Bush legacy and Obama's opportunity--nothing less than the future of the country. Where would you say that tone comes from? According to Sysomos, 59% of the tweets about Haiti were re-tweets. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. It's just paper. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. The user may or may not agree with the contents of the article, but they feel it is important enough to draw the readers attention to it. For the entire week of January 11-15, 43% of the news links in blogs were about the tragedy in Haiti according to the New Media Index produced by PEJ. He's extraordinarily popular. "Citizen media, including blogs, video reports and Twitter are becoming more influential as sources of information these days," summarized Kajsa Hallberg Adu at Rain in Africa. Crime syndicates and government organizations pose a much greater cyber threat than renegade hacker groups like Anonymous. The problem, I think, is the deregulation that actually happened. Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Web60513003. It's part of the Constitution. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Cafferty&oldid=2867454, Political commentators from the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Impeachment was put into the Constitution for a reason. It's like, who cares? And on blogs, where authors have more space to elaborate on their thoughts, many commented on the role social media was playing. Actress Lindsay Lohan, for example, tweeted "Yele Haiti now for the disasterPlease do all that you can. "If anyone ever doubted that blogging and tweeting could go beyond navel gazing, I guess today we have evidence of the contrary.". Jack Cafferty is now unmarried and of straight sexual orientation. I don't know that we'll ever return to the days of unlimited prosperity that we've seen in the past. They capture the top five linked-to stories on each list (25 stories each week), and reads, watches or listens to these posts and conducts a content analysis of their subject matter, just as it does for the mainstream press in its weekly News Coverage Index. But there's a lot of frustration, a lot of pain. They treat women like furniture in those countries. 4. With the added endorsements of the White House blog and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Red Cross reported that it raised $8 million that way by Friday, a far greater amount than in any similar attempt. Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean asked his 1.4 million Twitter followers to donate to his foundation by texting the word "Yele" (the name of his foundation) to the number 501501. If I was a woman, I think Id rather be in an American jail cell than I would be living with one of those-whatever they are over there. And as with the other data provided in the NMI, the top stories are determined in terms of percentage of links. The expansion of online blogs and other social media sites has allowed news-consumers and others outside the mainstream press to have more of a role in agenda setting, dissemination and interpretation. The online communication site Twitter played an especially large role as it quickly filled with Haiti-related information and ways to offer aid, according to this weeks analysis of social media by the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism. And, the event did not even occur until the middle of the week. I'd like to think they're doing well, but I don't think any of us will know the answer to that question for a while. WPIX has dumped longtime 10 p.m. anchor Jack Cafferty, hiring WNBC weekend man Jim Watkins as his replacement. Veteran journalist Jack Cafferty is known by many for his frank opinions as political commentator on CNN's The Situation Room. Well, it doesn't seem to me like [Corporate America] is too concerned about it. Some desperation, lots of anger, frustration, but on the other hand, a lot of hope. Carol [his second wife] is an extraordinary woman. Besides calling it as he sees it politically, he tells the story of growing up in a turbulent family in Reno, Nevada, in the 1950s. Somehow, I wouldnt be too concerned about the sensitivity of the Arab world. Well who the hell is she to take it off the table? On Twitter, the most linked-to news story of the week (with 15% of the links) was a CNN report about Continental Airlines decision to match Delta Airlines increase for checked luggage. I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me. How do you attract an audience? Blitzer replied, "It was not her best answer. And fifth (at 8%) was a video of a reporter who broke a phone at a Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that was marketed as being "unbreakable.". I think they do. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Web material written and produced by Lee Hill. And if this prevents the next financial crisis, something else will cause [a crisis]. Has anything you've ever said on the air really gotten you in trouble? Next, following links to stories about Haiti, was a report that actor Michael C. Hall is undergoing treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma (10%). Washington politics is a nasty game, and the guys that are out are always complaining about the guys that are in. People are very hopeful that this new President we have has got the Midas touch when it comes to being able to address and fix some of this stuff. According to the Twitter-tracking service Sysomos, 2.3 million Tweets included the word "Haiti" or "Red Cross" between January 12 and January 14. Obama talked about it in the campaign, you got to be involved, you got to participate, that whole clich that freedom ain't free. Bin Laden may be dead, but the terrorist group he led doesn't need his money. I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. WebWhat happened to Jack Cafferty? Now Cafferty has written his first book, It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars and Losers Who Are Hurting America (Wiley). The rest of the top stories in the blogosphere last week all originated from the BBC. But another phenomenon was occurring as well: tweets that didnt link people to fuller news accounts, but instead gave them direct access to take action-often in the way of donating money or supplies. I'm not the least bit surprised. I don't know that we're ever going to get completely out of this one. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. By CNN's Jack Cafferty: What a difference four years makes. You talk bluntly about a lot of things in your book. The fight over the cholesterol medication is keeping a generic version from hitting the market. All rights reserved. You pissed off the president of east coast television and microwave oven programming on NBC. And a report about the conflicts Google is facing with censorship in China was fifth at 7%. A lesson for all of us - what starts as a She caused thousands of dollars of damage and police released the tape in an attempt to identify and catch the woman. What stood out even more was that most of the tweets were calls for direct action-specifically to give money-rather than links to other sources of information or news. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it? Fortunately the students were able to evacuate on their own. It's not until you get a little farther into the alcoholism that it begins really to exact a toll on you. I think the old idea that our children's generation is going to have it better than we did, I think that's an idea that's no longer necessarily valid. In 1977, Cafferty began anchoring Live at Five and the Scarborough-Cafferty Report, as well as Strictly Business in New York. The immediacy and availability of social media was so strong that even a number of mainstream news organizations used it as a way to deliver first-person sourcing as events unraveled. For the examination of the links from Twitter, PEJ staff monitored the tracking site Tweetmeme. WebCNN's Jack Cafferty asks if Congress should give up trying to pass health care reform. I don't think so, but there's an unhealthy and unwholesome relationship between corporate America and the federal government. Blogs and Twitter have played critical roles in spreading information and awareness during other international events, such as the June 2009 protests in Iran, according to PEJs data. Social media became central to the fundraising effort that raised millions of dollars. I don't believe most of what I'm told by the politicians. By putting stuff on the air people are interested in. He's working, he's got a lot of balls in the air, he's got a lot of ideas on what needs to be done. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart. Anyone with a cell phone could text the word "Haiti" to 90999 and $10 would be added to their phone bill as a donation to the effort. You're known for your sarcastic style on the air, and even being a little cranky. Of course, they think that a lot of this stuff is genetic. When asked how, years later, he managed to eventually steer his life back on track, the CNN anchor hints to a measure of pure fate at work. Morningstar: 2018 Many Twitterers, for example, linked to MSNBCs list of charitable organizations that were active in the relief effort. WebJack Cafferty was born on December 14, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Cafferty stated, prior to playing a particularly embarrassing segment of the interview in which Palin stumbles across a murky, confused, ambiguous answer to Couric's query regarding the pending economic bailout package, "There's a reason the McCain campaign keeps Sarah Palin away from the press." we are ALL fine pray for those in the slums," wrote a user named troylivesay who was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For Thursday and Friday, 82% of the news links were on the subject. Well, look what you did this time, Jack Cafferty. 68.9K subscribers. We've got a war going on in Iraq, we've got budget deficits, we've got yadda-yadda-yadda. So whether he deserves to be impeached or not, I guess we'll never know, because they're not going to bother to look at it. All rights reserved. Well, take a look around. But the fundraising element here is something new-giving people fast, direct access to action. You can't assign blame to a person for the kind of cumulative gathering of storm clouds that we're dealing with right now, but mostly policies of not living within our means and in the case of Wall Street and the banks, a lack of proper supervision for these mortgage-backed securities and some of these other investment instruments that have led to the kind of horrific situation we've got in the financial sector. "Alcohol was as much a part of my daily living as brushing my teeth was," says Cafferty. He used to appear on The Situation Room, which is now hosted by Wolf He was a mercurial, volatile man who could be very charming and indulgent, and quite bright [when] sober, and could be a bitch on wheels when he'd had too much to drink. "Confirmation now that Jacmel is mostly destroyed. You pissed off the president of east coast television and microwave oven programming on NBC. He reportedly raised $2 million. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 Two stories about Facebook, including an attempt to increase their e-commerce team and a partnership with McAfee to provide better security, finished fourth at 9%. Then, as we do with Technorati and Icerocket, PEJ captured the five most popular linked-to pages each weekday under the heading of "news" as determined by Tweetmemes method of categorization. No one has ever accused CNN commentator Jack Cafferty of being a shrinking violet. 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And that was so much more fulfilling than succeeding at television.". All times are ET. It's not based on anything, it's all borrowed money. Other online entities played a role as well. 2019 TIME USA, LLC. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. I think virtually everything they say for public consumption is said with an agenda. While discussing Al Franken and other celebrities running for public office, he said Baldwins credentials are questionable but Franken is no slouch. He went to high school and university but information about his education has not been updated but will be updated soon. He was married to his girlfriend Carol Cafferty in 1973, and after thirty-five years of married life, his wife died of unknown causes in 2008. Before she died in 2008 they have four children and five grandchildren.
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