# CNN Headline Shirts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680 "2008-04-24T14:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/1 "2008-04-24T14:37:30Z")
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](http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Boy%20charged%20with%20sharing%20nude%20cell%20pics&fhash=45ebe4144022b12f1c0f61df4500208b&date=1209037209000&hash=dd944dc4138fec7e45949e3e24898edd&return_uri=http://www.cnn.com/video/%23/video/tech/2008/04/24/delacruz.cell.phone.porn.cnn) 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. Would you buy something like this? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/2 "2008-04-24T16:00:07Z")
Note that you can change the URL and have the shirt say anything you want… ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/3 "2008-04-24T16:03:15Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Note that you can change the URL and have the shirt say anything you want… [/QUOTE] Really? That didn’t seem to work for me. Can you post an example? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/4 "2008-04-24T16:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Note that you can change the URL and have the shirt say anything you want… [/QUOTE] Unfortunately they recently added a hash parameter which makes that extremely difficult (Until someone figures out their secret string, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/5 "2008-04-25T13:20:50Z")
A coworker of mine figured it out: [http://alt228.kicks-ass.net/CnnPooch.htm](http://alt228.kicks-ass.net/CnnPooch.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/6 "2008-04-25T13:37:59Z")
[Nice!](http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Larry%20King%20Is%20a%20Demented%20Old%20Man&fhash=8abf5b5c47059f4ccd580fa46cab9525&date=1209018000000&hash=b9ea6906845ab6a0a72ac14e86ee66a0&return_uri=http://www.fark.com) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/7 "2008-04-25T14:11:35Z")
If I wish for it hard enough, will it [come true](http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Landslide%20victory%20for%20Obama&fhash=c8e87a198c7e0afe9acd4ee266e78212&date=1209018000000&hash=b9ea6906845ab6a0a72ac14e86ee66a0&return_uri=http://www.fark.com)? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/8 "2008-04-26T05:57:48Z")
[I’m sure this will make Rupert Murdoch happy.](http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Fox%20News%20Rules%21&fhash=ce4a7ef7f4dda0d550bdd32685301800&date=1209018000000&hash=b9ea6906845ab6a0a72ac14e86ee66a0&return_uri=http://www.fark.com) [CNN ascribes to a higher standard of journalism.](http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Batboy%20Bites%20Obama%21&fhash=e413025c6ef8e451ed0df13c12ff684c&date=1209018000000&hash=b9ea6906845ab6a0a72ac14e86ee66a0&return_uri=http://www.fark.com) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/9 "2008-04-26T10:08:43Z")
Heh heh. I like **Larry Mudd** ’s shirt very much. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-shirts/446680/10 "2008-04-27T04:41:05Z")
I sure wish Sky News would offer T-shirts with this immortal caption: [http://www.beyondsatire.us/files/bush-disaster.jpg](http://www.beyondsatire.us/files/bush-disaster.jpg)