Career
Sackett owned several media properties in Oregon and California, including The World in Coos Bay, KVAN in Portland, and KROW in Oakland. He was responsible for renaming The Coos Bay Times to The World in the 1960s. In 1928, Sackett and Earl F. Brownlee bought the Salem Statesman Journal.
Sackett was managing editor of the paper.
Later, he was publisher of The World and continued buying and selling media properties. In December 1944, Sackett was publisher of the Oakland, California-based Olympic Press.
That same year, he purchased KROW for $250,000. In 1947, Sackett bought the Vancouver, Washington Sun, the Seattle Star, a weekly Portland newspaper, and a million dollar printing plant in Portland.
Sackett ran out of money a few months later and subsequently sold the Portland and Seattle papers.
Sackett tried to buy the Los Angeles Daily News for $1,525,000 in 1954 but allegedly could not come up with the money. In 1959, Sackett reportedly sold KVAN and KROW to Star Broadcasting, Incorporated. and Don West. Burden of Omaha, Nebraska for $1.9 million.