Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thejournalshoppe.com. NS
Answer
thejournalshoppe.com. 5 NS ns-738.awsdns-28.net.
thejournalshoppe.com. 5 NS ns-1512.awsdns-61.org.
thejournalshoppe.com. 5 NS ns-187.awsdns-23.com.
thejournalshoppe.com. 5 NS ns-1200.awsdns-22.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0