CNN Sells Out

What is CNN thinking? They began hawking headline t-shirts on their homepage today (see the little t-shirt icon next to a headline).

So let me get this straight...In the name of turning a profit and looking edgy, one of the most-respected brands in the news business has begun selling t-shirts of their own clever headlines. I don't think I'm overstating it when I say it's a sad day for journalism.

The news is new

I had grand plans to write a piece on CNN.com's recent re-launch. I would write about how, like USAToday before it, CNN's new design incorporates many "Web 2.0" features like user-contributed content, AJAX interfaces, more video, and lots more white space.

I would then talk about how major newspaper sites like The Washington Post are embracing the online medium and incorporating more blogs and other "web-only" content that never even appears in their print versions.

It would have been a nice little article. But Read/Write Web beat me to it.