The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has – alas – been on the backburner (too busy).

So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].

The newscaster – who doubled up as host of What’s My Line – was obliged to present the day’s stories while holding a lit cigarette.

The newscaster who hosted Camel News Caravan, John Cameron Swayze, was a also a panellist on NBC’s quiz show “Who Said That?” and NOT host of CBS’s “What’s My Line?” – that was John Charles Daly Jr. who doubled as a newscaster and executive at ABC.

BTW, on the day UK regulator Ofcom announced its review of public service broadcasting it’s worth recalling what Daly told Time when he got the boot from ABC in 1960:

“By the old standards by which I was brought up, most of what passes for public-service programming today is nothing of the sort; I don’t know how they get away with it.”