Jack Buttram's experience in the news business goes back to the late forties when he was a broadcast correspondent covering armed forces exercises in the U.S. and overseas. He traveled extensively in the Far East and Central America with Air Force and Army units. He was involved in commercial broadcasting for ten years after college.

More recently he has been engaged in public affairs/public relations efforts in his own company Jack E. Buttram Co., Inc [dba as Jebco Inc. and Jebco Editorial Service]. Before that he was a member of the White House staff under Ambassador Anne Armstrong in the Nixon Administration, Press Secretary to Senators Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, Paul Fannin and others. He served as Executive Director for 25 years in a non-partisan, non-political international friendship organization called Friends of Free China (Taiwan) which succeeded in holding the Free China diplomatic properties in Washington DC for the Republic of China government on Taiwan.

Jack has been involved in political campaigning for former President Ronald Reagan when he won the South Carolina primary over Gov. John Connolly; for Rep. Bob Inglis in his successful upset of long time Democrat congresswoman Elizabeth Patterson for South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District seat - and has served Republican politics in staff and volunteer positions from the precinct level to the Republican National Committee.

His political experience and media exposure has taken him to Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, North and South Carolina, Virginia and many other states - from which he derives an experienced perspective (admittedly Republican and conservative) at the national scene. His philosophy of limited government and personal responsibility along with a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as his Lord, informs what he describes as a biblical world view of current trends and events.

In constructing "Just A Minute" commentaries, Buttram says: "An apology is attributed to Thomas Jefferson writing a friend: 'Please excuse this long letter: I had no time to write a short one.' E.B. White, says his Cornell English composition professor, William Strunk, Jr., cried out: 'Rule 13: Omit needless words!' … into that imperative Will Strunk really put his heart and soul…So, I find following the example of Strunk, White and Jefferson, difficult, and challenging but with a big advantage: in just one minute no one has time to die of boredom."