Posted on 08/29/2006 10:57:20 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
ROFLMAO! Bwahahaha!
LOL! Gives new meaning to "suck it in, Katie."
LOL ... I need Photoshop!!
I hate her politics, but I think she looks great in both pictures.
They can.
"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!
I thought I was the only one who is completely creeped out by Biden's smile. Plastic, calculating and evil.
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.
LOL, thanks for the ping GD!
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.
Now Yahoo.com is carrying this story.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_en_tv/tv_couric_altered_photo
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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.
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