More network shenanigans - photoshopping Katie Couric

[poindexter]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/couric_watch/katies_extreme_makeover_42842.asp

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

I wonder who gave Katie the pearl necklace. [mind in the gutter]

 

[Idaho]

And editors and network execs wonder why the public doesn't place a lot of trust in the mainstream media. Sometimes it seems EVERYONE just wants to spin what they present.

1,000 examples of doing properly will be undone by one blatant lie or misrepresentation.

 

[bigpern23]

I wonder who gave Katie the pearl necklace. [mind in the gutter]

This from the guy who got bent out of shape when people posted pictures of hounds on a thread about Dubya.

 

[Twoback]

Seriously, she doesn't look good enough in the left picture? Whomever did this deserves a good smack.

 

[dixiehack]

Save one for whoever did color correction on the original shot.

 

[Ace]

Seriously, she doesn't look good enough in the left picture? Whomever did this deserves a good smack.

I agree. It's not a damn fashion magazine. What are people thinking when they do this -- or order it done?

 

[Idaho]

Does this mean the CBS Evening News is thought of as more entertainment than journalism by the powers that be? Go ahead and photoshop the promo photos for CSI and Survivor: Rock Springs, Wyo. But news is supposed to be accurate, not tweaked to look more purty.

 

[Chi City 81]

Seriously, she doesn't look good enough in the left picture? Whomever did this deserves a good smack.

I agree. It's not a damn fashion magazine. What are people thinking when they do this -- or order it done?

Who's to say it wasn't Katie who ordered the touching up? Just saying.

 

[Ace]

Seriously, she doesn't look good enough in the left picture? Whomever did this deserves a good smack.

I agree. It's not a damn fashion magazine. What are people thinking when they do this -- or order it done?

Who's to say it wasn't Katie who ordered the touching up? Just saying.

Take that back, damn you! That's America's Sweetheart you're talking about.

Actually, I thought of that but considered that if it were Katie, she would have had the original publicity shot made slimtastic, too. But It's possible she saw it and ordered it done.

It seems more likely the pinheads at the magazine got the bright idea themselves.

 

[Idaho]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/447881p-377075c.html

The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor said she didn't know about the digitally doctored photo until the September issue of the quarterly glossy landed on her desk.

"I liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love," the 49-year-old former NBC "Today" show host said, laughing off the manipulated publicity shot.

In the magazine, which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airlines flights, Couric appears on the front dressed in a dark business suit and flashing her pearly whites.

But on an inside page, the touched-up - or rather, slimmed-downed - photo shows Couric in a striped designer dress suit standing in front of the CBS eye logo.

The original photo, which shows Couric looking more bosomy and thicker in the shoulders, waist and cheeks, was snapped in May.

CBS spokeswoman Dana McClintock blamed the goof on Watch! magazine's staffers.

"The editorial staff of Watch! magazine retouched the photo without the knowledge of Miss Couric and CBS News management," McClintock said.

Watch! editor Jeremy Murphy declined comment.

 

[poindexter]

Airbrushing the CBS news anchor.

Cronkite and Rather must be spinning in their graves.

 

[Ace]

Ha!

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Is it wrong of me that when I saw the pictures in the first post, I actually laughed? What does that say about me? Actually, that's probably better left unanswered.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

She's 49? Damn.

 

[BYH]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/447881p-377075c.html

The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor said she didn't know about the digitally doctored photo until the September issue of the quarterly glossy landed on her desk.

"I liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love," the 49-year-old former NBC "Today" show host said, laughing off the manipulated publicity shot.

In the magazine, which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airlines flights, Couric appears on the front dressed in a dark business suit and flashing her pearly whites.

But on an inside page, the touched-up - or rather, slimmed-downed - photo shows Couric in a striped designer dress suit standing in front of the CBS eye logo.

The original photo, which shows Couric looking more bosomy and thicker in the shoulders, waist and cheeks, was snapped in May.

CBS spokeswoman Dana McClintock blamed the goof on Watch! magazine's staffers.

"The editorial staff of Watch! magazine retouched the photo without the knowledge of Miss Couric and CBS News management," McClintock said.

Watch! editor Jeremy Murphy declined comment.

Wow, did McClintock throw Watch! under the bus.

Actually, nuke that "i" and replace it with another vowel. Wow. That was cold.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Lighten up her face? Fine.

But isn't the tummy tuck a bit much?

 

[Columbo]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/447881p-377075c.html

The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor said she didn't know about the digitally doctored photo until the September issue of the quarterly glossy landed on her desk.

"I liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love," the 49-year-old former NBC "Today" show host said, laughing off the manipulated publicity shot.

In the magazine, which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airlines flights, Couric appears on the front dressed in a dark business suit and flashing her pearly whites.

But on an inside page, the touched-up - or rather, slimmed-downed - photo shows Couric in a striped designer dress suit standing in front of the CBS eye logo.

The original photo, which shows Couric looking more bosomy and thicker in the shoulders, waist and cheeks, was snapped in May.

CBS spokeswoman Dana McClintock blamed the goof on Watch! magazine's staffers.

"The editorial staff of Watch! magazine retouched the photo without the knowledge of Miss Couric and CBS News management," McClintock said.

Watch! editor Jeremy Murphy declined comment.

Wow, did McClintock throw Watch! under the bus.

Actually, nuke that "i" and replace it with another vowel. Wow. That was cold.

Which "i"?

I guess I'm a bit slower than normal this morning.

 

[Chi City 81]

Replace the "i" in McClintock with a "u," is what I'm guessing he meant.

 

[playthrough]

The shrinking face freaks me out...she looks more like the Joker.