CBS Caught Doctoring Photo To Make Katie Couric Thinner...

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CBS Caught Doctoring Photo To Make Katie Couric Thinner...

CBS Whittles Katie Couric's Waist In Doctored Photo
TVNewser | Brian Stelter | Posted Tuesday August 29, 2006



Unbelievable catch by Brian Stelter at TVNewser, courtesy of an eagle-eyed tipster: CBS visibly altered Katie Couric's photo in its "Watch" Magazine, slenderizing her waist, arms and neck. Yowsers! TVNewser id's the first photo as Katie's official CBS photo, taken at the upfronts in May. Let's hear it for transparency and accuracy in the news! Paging Adnan Hajj...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/29/cbs-whittles-katie-couric_e_28314.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Oh dear...not starting out for Katie is it?

:nuke:

[Jack from Charlotte]

71. Why don't they just pay her to take her shirt off? That would get....

the ratings up. She's a friggin' news reader. A 3rd grader could read the news. The rest is just fluff. So get her to strip and people will watch. However, the other networks would follow by getting a young, non-frumpish 20 year old to do the same and that would end Katie's "journalism" career.

[Sydnie]

2. Unbelieveable

Why did they bother? Did they think that no one had seen her, full frontal so to speak, on the Today show ... EVER?

[tabasco]

5. They want us to know what a hottie we will have reading the news.

Pathetic.

[Botany]

7. Bay Airs Rock!

BTW Fresh gull bay for you in the KO site

[Spiffarino]

28. The Today Show uses green screen technology and a body model

Here's the original

:evilgrin:

[formercia]

41. I love it.

:evilgrin:

[Junkdrawer]

43. he he he...

:thumbsup:

[Chiyo-chichi]

66. bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

[Cronus Protagonist]

70. That's FUNNY - made me laugh out loud, really :) eom

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[panader0]

3. I could go for a bit of that "doctoring" too. There's this divorcee

I'm trying to impress.

[WindRavenX]

4. jesus fucking christ

:banghead:

[Arkham House]

6. A pity Stalin didn't have today's computers...

...for his photo "enhancements"...

[baldguy]

40. These are Stalins' heirs.

[Bucky]

68. I read somewhere that Stalin had intentionally bad photo doctoring done

If you look at an old photo and see that certain people have been rubbed out, it serves as a useful reminder to others that they can be 'shopped away too.



They seem to have doctored away Stalin's smile in the process.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Gee, I wonder why they didn't do that for Dan Rather?

:eyes:

[Atman]

9. Okay, I gotta give 'em credit where it's due...

One of the best PS jobs I've ever seen! Believe me, this was NOT an easy doctoring job!

[TalkingDog]

50. Compare the backgrounds, they simply scaled her dimensions

from side to side. It also shows in the neckline of the dress. Unfortunately they kept the facial features the same width, which gives her that Joker-esque smile and weird neck wattle.

I've seen better Photoshop...Hell, I've done better and I'm not very good.

Oh, and yes, cleaning up the jaundice was a good idea.



My favorite Future Famous Dead Artist: KarenParker

[Atman]

52. Actually, you're quite wrong.

It simply isn't possible for a wider space to appear between her arms and waist by just scaling the pic across the horizontal axis. Her hands are still the same size, too. As are her facial features, while here neck has been sculpted away. Also, contrary to what you think you see, the background is actually slightly wider in the re-touched photo. It may not be perfect, but it sure a pretty darned good retouching job.

[gatorboy]

Looks like they cleaned up that jaundice as well.

Thumb's up!

[soothsayer]

10. Maybe the OTHER foto was doctored to make her look fat....

ok, just kidding, bwa ha ha ha

[Virginian]

27. That was my first thought.

If the fat picture is the real one, she has put on a few pounds over the summer. She wasn't that heavy when she left "Today."

[originalpckelly]

45. She looks like the Hulk in the un-doctored photo...

maybe that is why they altered it. I wonder if Mrs. Couric looks like that in person? Maybe she bulked up a little to go toe to toe with her male rivals, and kind of over did it.

[BOSSHOG]

11. They won't be able to doctor her performance against Brian Williams

[Surya Gayatri]

35. Wow, you said it Boss,

especially after BW's killer interview with Chimp last night. She can't touch William's gravitas and credibility. SG

[Drum]

12. Good catch! n/t

[magellan]

13. You ain't come a long way, baby. (nt)

[RB TexLa]

14. Funny, I must have missed the promotional shots of Dan Rather grinning

:shrug:

[karlrschneider]

15. They also added in a little more perky too.

:puke:

[elehhhhna]

29. Nice head tilt. Cronkite originated that, right? Or was it Murrow?

[arewenotdemo]

34. No, and they didn't have her heart-warming smile, either.

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[elehhhhna]

51. That's a smile?!!! Only from the bottom lip down, perhaps.

[Swamp Rat]

16. But can they photoshop her a new brain?

:D

[LostinVA]

55. Couric isn't the least bit dumb

She graduated from UVA, lived on the Lawn (ie in the original Jefferson Academical Village -- it's quite an honor to be asked to do so), etc. That's what makes it worse, I think...

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. Money/power corrupts absolutely.

[Kickoutthejams23]

17. So no fat chicks?

She doesn't look bad at all in the first photo. The doctoring job makes her look like Mary effin Richards. (Mary Tyler Moore)

[never_get_over_it]

18. OK well Katie

should be good and embarrassed over this one - but man where can we send photos to accomplish this - I have a few of my own I'd like worked on....

[dweller]

19. can they just photoshop her

out of sight?

dp

[gatorboy]

20. Yup. Here's the original:

http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2006/05/19/entertainment/photoessay1634837.shtml

I think they screwed up her jaw line on the AFTER photo. She looks like the Joker.

Who catches this stuff???

[PretzelzRule]

30. Actually, the doctored jawline reminds me of this spokesmodel...

[Lisa0825]

21. Damn, I wish I could do that!

I don't think she looked heavy in the first pic, but the second looks more in line with anorexic TV standards... remember, the TV camera EASILY adds an extra 10-15 lbs, so anyone who looks slender on TV is most likely VERY skinny in person.

[jsamuel]

22. wow, they spent a quite a bit of time on doing that too

[ninkasi]

23. I never knew weight loss was so powerful

On one of our local t.v. channels, it shows a black lady posing for the picture, and smiling. She's a bit chubby in that picture, but then the "after" picture is shown, along with her announcement that weight loss was so easy for her. Apparently, judging by the before and after photos, losing weight also caused her skin to lighten about 6 or 7 shades. Who knew losing weight caused people to change so drastically?:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Julius Civitatus]

24. Photoshopping practices in the MSM are too pervasive

They are altering and Photoshopping everything, specially making women look impossibly thin and youthful. No wonder the epidemic of anorexia in teenagers, as the MSM creates impossible standards to follow.

[Dinger]

25. KKKatie's Stay At CBS Will Be A Short One (nt)

[BrightKnight]

33. If she can't fit in the right dress size

Nobody cares about what a mature normal looking woman has to say. The ratings are going to tank.

:sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

26. Instant diets RAAAAAWK!

Right Anchorwoman?

[Rex]

31. But I thought the TV always told the truth?

I'm shocked & Awed!

[katamaran]

32. The fat one is the original...

...look at the corners of her shoulders. On the fat pic, the fabric of her suit jacket has definite points where it is bunching up (shoulders, lapel, elbows). That's the first thing that would jump out at a photo editor, so they were smoothed for the skinny pic. Likewise, they smoothed the bump in the fabric on her hip out, to make the whole thing look more tailored and sleek. And upon zooming in, they didn't copy the pinstripe pattern on that hip...it's a solid mass or black where it was edited. So it looks like they shrank the whole thing by about 5% on the X-axis, color corrected, cleaned up the bumps, and cinched her waist. And it's not even a good matte between her arms and body...there's a slight outline.

I HATE bad Photoshopping.

/TV graphic artist with WAY too much time on my hands.

[izzybeans]

36. Isn't this a common practice for pretty much any t.v. personality?

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. Damn, can that do that to pics of me too?

I'd love to be skinny again, even if it is only make believe.

[annabanana]

38. If she's looking for ANY cred... the first thing she should do

is blast her boss for allowing the PS-rats to do this to her photo...Loudly and publicly.

[Perky]

39. People are dying in Iraq and homeless in N.O. and we have 40

people posting about this??????

C'mon people is this really important? Sorry but we have to be something more than the "Gotcha" Party!


Who cares.

[MethuenProgressive]

49. Excellent point.

C'mon people, be adults.

[LostinVA]

56. So are you -- and I do care -- A HELL OF A LOT

I'm tired of any female over a size two being looked at as fat -- it's disgusting and almost evil to me.

[KurtNYC]

67. And Katy Couric is a cheerleader for that war

a first rate propagandist with great legs. This doctored image goes against her credibility as does this set of non-questions for Michael Moore:

COURIC: You use images of Iraq before the invasion. And if I recall, you have pictures of, film of children playing in playgrounds. You sort of hear the sounds of children laughing.
MOORE: Yeah.

COURIC: You have people eating in outdoor cafes. But even people, Michael, who are vehemently opposed to the war would tell you Saddam Hussein was a tyrannical despot—

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: who killed people—

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: for absolutely no reason.

MOORE: That’s correct.

COURIC: A murderer.

MOORE: Mm-hmm.

COURIC: And wouldn’t your movie have been better balanced if you had at least included some about Saddam Hussein’s own reputation?

MOORE: You guys did such a good job of telling us how tyrannical and horrible he was. You already did that. What—the question really should be posed to NBC News and all of the other news agencies: Why didn’t you show us that the people that we’re going to bomb in a few days are these people, human beings who are living normal lives, kids flying kites, people just trying to get by in their daily existence? And as the New York Times pointed out last week, out of the 50 air strikes in those initial days, the—we were zero for 50 hitting the target. We killed civilians and we don’t know how many thousands of civilians that we killed. And nobody covered that. And so for two hours, I’m going to cover it. I’m going to—out of four years of all of this propaganda, I’m going to give you two hours that says here’s the other side of the story.

[Junkdrawer]

42. "Knock off the weight or we'll do it for you"....so much for gavitas...

:rofl:

[WI_DEM]

44. J.C., it's not like she was fat to begin with

And people wonder why so many young girls become bulimic?

[mainegreen]

46. What is up with all the awful media photoshop jobs lately?

Seriously, that doctored image is all pixely and the color is creepy. It looks like she's having a hot flash.

[npincus]

47. Whoa-- that's 'news' to me!

[MethuenProgressive]

48. This is news? PR shots have been air-brushed/"doctored" for decades

"Unbelievable"? Only to gossipers and other catty Katie-haters.

[KansDem]

57. Sorry, but when you're charged with reporting national/international news,

You don't mess around with photos. It's a "credibility thing." We now have a right to ask, "what else has been "air-brushed/'doctored'" for our "consumption?" Sure, you can fool around with photos for gossip rags, tabloids, and glossy weeklies, but not for a news network whose reputation needs to remain beyond reproach.

And the same thing goes for the written text...

[LostinVA]

53. Katie Couric is a teeny tint thing

I've seen her up close in person.

Give me a freaking break. WTF do they want her to look like Nicole Ritchie???

[AlCzervik]

54. wtf a size 2 isn't small enough anymore so they ps her to a size -6?

[cgrindley]

58. Shame they can't doctor the photo to make her a real journalist

It's probably the dead low tide of tv journalism. At least Robin Meade calls me Sunshine every morning.

[MethuenProgressive]

59. The 'fat' one is the official CBS photo per MSNBC

The "fat" one is old, and was previously released. The touched-up one was used in an internal NBC employee magazine. I bet no one apologizes for jumping on the hate-CBS/Katie bandwagon.

[Garbo 2004]

61. CBS cops to altering their own official Couric photo in a CBS magazine.

From AP article on MSNBC site:

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...

...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.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14584870/

NBC had nothing to do with it.

[NYCGirl]

60. I do love what Ms. Couric said about the photos:

"Through a spokesman, Couric says that she prefers the original photo 'because there's more of me to love...'"

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[Bake]

62. So I guess they'll be doctoring the news, too

Good night and good luck ...

Bake

[Ilsa]

64. Her whole body got altered, including her face.

Her arms and face are obviously thinner. There is no fricking reason for this. She looks fine the way she is. Is CBS selling news or size 2 dresses?

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. Great. More fuel for the anorexia fire. Our adolescent girls are screwed.

The rampant "lookism" in our society is killing our children.

[KurtNYC]

69. Anorexia affects a very, very small percentage of people

worldwide and existed before television and before Twiggy. It is one of the more misunderstood psychological disorders. It IS found in males also--where is the media role model for that? There isn't one. True anorexia has almost nothing to do with media images. It is more akin to OCD.

http://www3.who.int/icd/currentversion/fr-icd.htm?gf50.htm+

[Pacifist Patriot]

72. Lookism doesn't just result in anorexia.

Of course it existed before television and Twiggy. I absolutely agree it is more akin to OCD, but that does not mean that media images of desirable body shapes don't contribute. Ask any psychologist who has been practicing for more than thirty years if they think lookism isn't a contributing factor in anorexia.

We're sending a dual message to our adolescent girls that looks are paramount and they have less power than the male. One of the few things they have the ability to control is their weight. That's a recipe for disaster.

1% of American adolescent girls with anorexia (4% with bulimia) may be a very very small percentage to you, but it's enough young women to warrant my concern.

Doctoring a photo of a perfectly normal and healthy middle-aged woman is demoralizing and degrading. I'm sick of it!