I can certainly understand fixing the color, as in the first photo she appears to have spent the last six months on the all-carrot diet, but the waistline adjustment? To me, this does not say “serious newswoman who we are taking seriously”.

Maybe it’s Katie’s head on Ann-Marget’s body!

I think they’re giving her a hint

Oooh, this kind of photo manipulation burns me so bad. How are normal-sized women supposed to believe they are normal when even slim, beautiful media personalities are shown thinner than reality?

Oughta be illegal.

(grumble grumble)

Haha, that’s not nearly as bad as the nude spread that Britney Spears did for the August 2006 Harper’s Bazaar. As if pregnant women don’t already have enough body issues, sheesh.

Katie Couric annoys the heck out of me but I do feel kinda sorry for her – imagine having to wake up at 4 AM almost every morning for all those years.

Television news is watched mostly by us older folks and I don’t think it was a surprise that the dismal ratings at CBS started to improve when an older, respected Bob Schieffer replaced Dan “what’s the frequency Kenneth” Rather. Schieffer is probably twice the age of the suits at CBS who are still popping zits and thinking with their zippers open. Let’s all feel lucky the exec’s Photoshopped Katie and stopped short of naked news.

Uh, whatwouldjanicedickinsondo, the appropriate thread for that comment would be several posts down. Which is not the same as saying that it’s an appropriate comment.

I wish I had a full-time Photoshop retoucher to follow me around and modify how I looked at all times.

Now I almost like Katie, now that I can see she’s approaching “average” size!

It’s sad to think how far TV news has plummeted since the days of Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, Chancellor and Walters. Serious people reporting on serious things. Now we get talking heads and people talking over one another. Sigh.

I’m not surprised that they shrunk her body since that’s a common practice. BUT THEY SHRUNK HER HEAD!!!!!!

Eowyn_2, Never teh Bride: not only did they slim her waist, hips, and head; they also slimmed the logo on the wall behind her. It’s subtle, but the logo is definitely narrower in the new-improved picture.
This suggests the slimming was done the easy way: by tweaking the aspect ratio of the entire photo, thereby making everyone and everything thinner and/or taller.

Katie’s only sin in the original photo: not wearing a slip.

I was wondering why Katie Couric’s head was on Wynona Ryder’s body. Fake but accurate, indeed!

This suggests the slimming was done the easy way: by tweaking the aspect ratio of the entire photo

Nah. Take a look at the gap between arm and waist. That gap is considerably larger in the second picture, indicating the waist was “taken in” the hard(er) way. It also looks like they got rid of the bump on her left hip caused where her jacket ends.

But someone mentioned that the first picture looked stretched out by about 6%. I’m not sure what’s up with that, but it would account for the logo being wider.

If the network has to do this to pictures of their anchor, that should tell you what they are going to do with the news and any video/photos. No thanks … I’m just fine.

I saw Katie at a restaurant at least ten years ago and she was quite short. . . I’m 5’2″ and she seemed to be shorter than I! But then, I guess if one is a liberal, he can be whatever height he chooses and the driveby (anti-truth) media will support him.

Agree with the remark on her figure vs personality. I don’t care about the figure. I do care about the fact that she is a simpering, not very smart, stereotypical progressive type. Methinks CBS will have a hit on their hands – for about three weeks. It’ll take her about that long to lapse into Cronkiteisms or Ratherisms….mainly due to the fact that she has about the same intellect (or lack thereof) as the two previous anchor bimboys.