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.)
"Just what is this subliterate's claim to fame...."
That an airhead can articulate the most outrageous garbage on behalf of her masters, tittering and twinkling all the while. If anybody calls out CBS on the facts and details, they just smile and wink.."you KNOW Katie..wink, wink"
Not just the waistline. Everything from the neck down looks like it's had some redaction, er...reduction done.
Looks like they took a little off her face too ... not nearly enough though.
Did Katie Couric okay/bless/encourage fauxtography?
bump =-this is funny!
Naw. Your post adds value to the thread while mine is merely hateful and terse.
And this is a simple two second step when resizing a photo in Adobe Photo-Deluxe.
They say TV adds 10 lbs. Katie is in trouble when they can't photoshop TV news.
I hate gummy smiles. Yuck.
Can Photshop go the other way, i.e add pounds?
CBS blames the "editorial staff" of a promotional magazine for doctoring a photo to dramatically slim Katie Couric down, but those editors are in fact the network’s PR staff.
Website TVNewser caught CBS putting Couric on a diet in its Watch magazine by altering a photo of her from the network’s upfront presentation that substantially thins her waist and face. The Website showed the magazine’s version next to the version originally taken at the network’s ad presentation in Carnegie Hall last May.
Magazine photos are altered all the time. However, this alteration comes as the network is struggling to portray longtime NBC Today Show co-host Couric as a news anchor with the gravitas to convey serious news.
A CBS spokesman says only that "the editorial staff of Watch magazine retouched the photo without the knowledge of Katie Couric or CBS news management" and would not elaborate further.
However, the alteration is completely an inside job. Much of the production and ad sales of the quarterly magazine are handled by an outside custom publisher, but the editorial content is all prepared by CBS’ own communications department. The magazine’s masthead says that Executive VP, Communications, Gil Schwartz is editor in chief and Director of Communications Jeremy Murphy is editor.
Murphy— who actually puts out the magazine—would not comment Tuesday, but in an interview in PR Week when the magazine was announced last year, Murphy said, "It really is a journalistic enterprise. We're putting together a magazine that will be useful."
Tongue in cheek, Schwartz says that "nothing in Watch magazine has done anything to diminish Katie's true stature."
Through a spokesman, Couric says that she prefers the original photo "because there's more of me to love."
Probably just a fluke.......
MSM keeps shooting themselves in the foot.
No wonder they want a gatekeeper for the Internet.
They used to be able to filter and interpret news [aka, hoodwink] for the general public.
No wonder they pine for the good ole days.
A lot....not a little.
Oh!
Oh!!
I know!!!!
[Hand raised, jumping up and down in my seat.]
She was on the Cindy Sheehan ice cream fast. Katie lost 20 and Cindy gained them.
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