I have heard legitimate rumors that CNN will be renaming itself to the Reality News Network, or RNN. Realizing the popularity of reality TV, CNN has finally jumped on the bandwagon and is changing their image. Conveniently, they have been working on changing the substance of their news to a full-time reality news network since the early 90’s. The OJ Simpson chase and trial, the Martha Stewart Who-Knitted-That-Sweater controversy, and one of today’s headline’s “Is that a Bigfoot carcass in the freezer?” that has a link to a t-shirt purchase — all those stories show that no changes will be necessary to the actual content of their news. There will be a few additions such as the Russian/Georgia Family Swap where they take families from both countries, swap them, and then document every minute like it were a finger in Wendy’s food. They will also be changing the name of their newly popular iReport to uReport to accurately reflect the work of journalism being too difficult to trust with simple journalists. With a camera and a natural disaster, ANYONE can be a journalist!

Their headline today of “Ticker: Obama plan called ‘economic disaster’” turns out that someone out there called Obama’s plan and economic disaster — specifically a McCain commercial. They do not provide fair and balanced news though, which would mean having a story about the Obama commercial in which “Obama plan called ‘absolute genius’”. Or a story from an economist. I have contacted CNN about adding a reality show about economists…but have yet to hear back.