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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: ashtanga

"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"


61 posted on 08/30/2006 3:48:51 AM PDT by mo
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To: FreedomCalls
"Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says:

Not just the waistline. Everything from the neck down looks like it's had some redaction, er...reduction done.

62 posted on 08/30/2006 3:49:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Looks like they took a little off her face too ... not nearly enough though.


63 posted on 08/30/2006 3:52:57 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
I wonder whose idea this was? If Couric suggested it? And/or if they asked her premission and she okayed it?

Did Katie Couric okay/bless/encourage fauxtography?

64 posted on 08/30/2006 4:20:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: martin_fierro

bump =-this is funny!


65 posted on 08/30/2006 4:24:53 AM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
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To: Drammach

Naw. Your post adds value to the thread while mine is merely hateful and terse.


66 posted on 08/30/2006 4:25:29 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: FreedomCalls

And this is a simple two second step when resizing a photo in Adobe Photo-Deluxe.


67 posted on 08/30/2006 4:29:27 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: SkyPilot
Paper Airplane
68 posted on 08/30/2006 4:31:11 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: FreedomCalls; monkapotamus; SkyPilot

"Milk the bull? Are you out of your mind"

69 posted on 08/30/2006 4:39:40 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: FreedomCalls

They say TV adds 10 lbs. Katie is in trouble when they can't photoshop TV news.


70 posted on 08/30/2006 4:44:38 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: FreedomCalls
I notice on the promos on CBS that they must be using huge gobs of vaseline on the camera lens.
71 posted on 08/30/2006 4:47:13 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: philman_36
Max Headroom bump. Man, that is old school!
72 posted on 08/30/2006 4:49:57 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: Screamname

I hate gummy smiles. Yuck.


73 posted on 08/30/2006 5:02:06 AM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Man, that is old school!
Oh NO, I'm getting OLD! How could this happen?! {;^)
74 posted on 08/30/2006 5:05:10 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: FreedomCalls

Can Photshop go the other way, i.e add pounds?


75 posted on 08/30/2006 5:11:39 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet
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To: FreedomCalls
CBS Puts Couric on Photoshop Diet

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."

76 posted on 08/30/2006 5:17:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: FreedomCalls
She has the smile of back-stabbing, lying, flaming socialist lib nurse manager that I worked with a few months ago.

Probably just a fluke.......

77 posted on 08/30/2006 5:21:27 AM PDT by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: FreedomCalls

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.


78 posted on 08/30/2006 5:21:36 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: FreedomCalls
and waist erased a little.

A lot....not a little.

79 posted on 08/30/2006 5:23:03 AM PDT by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: FreedomCalls

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.


80 posted on 08/30/2006 5:24:40 AM PDT by TomGuy
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