I woke up this morning and went through my usual rounds of news. I was surprised to see little t-shirt icons next to some headlines on CNN.com

It turns out CNN has a new service (a "beta" one, for effective Web 2.0 cred), CNN T-Shirts. You can order a t-shirt with the headline of choice, along with the date it ran.

I want to think this is clever, but I can't make myself. Perhaps if the headlines were biting like Diesel Sweeties or effectively captured cultural moments like Busted Tees. Perhaps I'm wrong though, and wearing weird one-liners like Expired Food Sold at Low Prices or Courtroom Razor Attack Caught on Tape will become hipster heroin chic, Von Dutch-style.

How do you think the subjects of the news stories -- like the guy who unsuspectingly gave his kid an alcoholic lemonade at a ballgame -- feel about being sloganized into t-shirts? How should they react? Should they get royalties? What are the privacy issues associated with having the publicized events of your life sold as gimmickery?