An old guy who teaches people how to paint in a fun way is interesting? The only agenda is getting people to watch CNN for CNN. This story will get eyeballs for a little while. Sometimes the news is just the news. Even when people think the news is some kind of conspiracy, it usually is just the news trying to get attention and sell some ads.
It's a conspiracy TO sell ads. Conspiracy just means there's some subset of people that aren't "let in" on what's happening, so they don't fully understand the mechanism of what's going on.
