So, I’m perusing CNN today, and I see a little t-shirt icon next to a headline. “Whats that?” I think. I click it, and I get a page offering me the exciting opportunity to buy a T-shirt with the headline emblazoned on it. Now, I generally don’t go in for printing on my shirts. I do have a few sweatshirts proclaiming my deluded devotion to the St. Louis Blues, but that’s about it. However, telling the world that I was particularly fascinated by CNN’s story “Boy charged with sharing nude cell pics” is intriguing.
But seriously folks, don’t you think CNN’s little entrepreneurial endeavor is distasteful? Talk about breaching the line between journalism and commerce. Are their journalists now going to be instructed to file stories that make good t-shirts? Will the journalist whose stories garner the most t-shirt orders get the biggest raise? Yeesh.
