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Katie's Extreme Makeover? (another altered image!)
TV Newser ^ | Tuesday, Aug 29 | Brian Stelter

Posted on 08/29/2006 10:57:20 PM PDT by FreedomCalls

"Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says:

The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront. (TVNewser posted it in May.) The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS. (Here's the PDF of the magazine.)


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; couric; evabraunofthemedia; fatkatie; fauxtography; photoshop; titanicdeckchair
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To: Yossarian

ROFLMAO! Bwahahaha!


121 posted on 08/30/2006 9:14:32 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: FreedomCalls

LOL! Gives new meaning to "suck it in, Katie."


122 posted on 08/30/2006 9:27:40 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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123 posted on 08/30/2006 10:27:08 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Mo1

LOL ... I need Photoshop!!


124 posted on 08/30/2006 10:43:15 AM PDT by girlscout
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To: Grampa Dave
The makeover continues:


125 posted on 08/30/2006 10:46:48 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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I might be the only dissenting voice on this thread.

I hate her politics, but I think she looks great in both pictures.

126 posted on 08/30/2006 10:52:13 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: longtermmemmory
Just imagine when they can do that on the fly.

They can.

127 posted on 08/30/2006 11:24:32 AM PDT by ordinaryguy
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To: ValerieUSA

"Heaven forbid a 50 yr old woman should ever look like a 50 year old woman."

I don't care for her as a journalist, but she's darn cute, IMO.

Really!


128 posted on 08/30/2006 2:01:05 PM PDT by ktvaughn (I avoid cliches like the plague...)
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To: Marius3188
Dam, she has a stupid smile just like Biden. I hate Biden's smile. Hate it. Hate it!!!!

I thought I was the only one who is completely creeped out by Biden's smile. Plastic, calculating and evil.

129 posted on 08/30/2006 2:33:11 PM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: FreedomCalls

Typical MSM who photo shop the news!

She is not a fat lady at all, and I am sure they did not need to do this but heck........... drudge seems obsessed with Katie news.


130 posted on 08/30/2006 2:36:44 PM PDT by JFC (Land of the FREE because of our BRAVE)
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To: Grampa Dave

LOL, thanks for the ping GD!


131 posted on 08/30/2006 2:54:28 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Grampa Dave; george76
This is another example of the lame MMM trying to lie, spin and use Fauxtography to promote their PR.

IMHO most likely a SeeBS publicity stunt to try to get people to tune in to gawk at Her Royal Perkiness. Possibly payback from a drama queen like the jilted prima donna Bob Schieffer. Or you can just take it at face value.

132 posted on 08/30/2006 9:25:59 PM PDT by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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To: FreedomCalls

Now Yahoo.com is carrying this story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_en_tv/tv_couric_altered_photo

Back to Story - Help
CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo Wed Aug 30, 3:39 PM ET



No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.

The touched-up photo of Couric dressed in a striped business suit appears on the inside of the September issue of Watch! which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airlines flights.

CBS News President Sean McManus said he was "obviously surprised and disappointed when I heard about it."

The original picture was snapped in May and was widely circulated to the media as an official photo of Couric.

Couric, 49, said she hadn't known about the digitally reworked version until she saw the issue. The former NBC "Today" show host told the Daily News, "I liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love."

Gil Schwartz, executive vice president of communications for CBS Corp., said Wednesday in a phone interview the photo alteration was done by someone in the CBS photo department who "got a little zealous."

But he dismissed any notion of heads rolling over the matter.

"I talked to my photo department, we had a discussion about it," Schwartz said. "I think photo understands this is not something we'd do in the future."

He said the photo department "services tens of thousands of photographs every year" for all parts of the company and that it "does a fantastic job."

"The article that accompanies the picture is very responsible, very interesting," he added.

Schwartz said the magazine has a circulation of over 400,000.

While expressing regret, McManus tried to make light of the matter.

"I've asked that three inches in height be added to my official CBS photo," he quipped to the News.

Couric debuts in the anchor's chair Sept. 5. CBS has spent millions on marketing to prepare viewers for her arrival.


133 posted on 08/31/2006 3:52:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: FreedomCalls

up top...


134 posted on 09/02/2006 8:28:34 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: FreedomCalls
CBS should photoshop hair on Harry Smith.
135 posted on 09/02/2006 8:41:03 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: monkapotamus; FreedomCalls; pookie18

Cha-CHING!
136 posted on 09/06/2006 5:36:27 AM PDT by philman_36
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