<pre>Katie Couric Photo Airbrushed Latest in series of digitally altered photos sparks mini controversy.
By Jay DeFoore August 30, 2006
Just as she's gearing up for her new job as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Katie Couric has been digitally slimmed down in a magazine photo.
Staffers in the photo department of Watch!, a CBS promotional magazine distributed through American Airlines, digitally airbrushed Couric to make her appear thinner, shaving inches off her waist, arms and legs.
The former "Today" show host was unaware of the digitally reworked photo until its publication.
CBS News President Sean McManus told the Associated Press that he was "obviously surprised and disappointed when I heard about it" earlier this week.
Gil Schwartz, executive vice president of communications for CBS Corp., admitted to the AP that someone in the CBS photo department "got a little zealous," but added that no one would lose their job over the incident.
"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."
The practice of digitally altering photos is widespread in the magazine business, but several high profile cases have caused embarrassment for editorial staffs in recent years and fed the public's growing distrust of the media. The editor of Newsweek apologized in 2005 for a cover illustration that used Martha Stewart's head on a model's body, a move he called "just dumb and badly executed." Back in 2003, the editor of British GQ admitted that a cover photo of actress Kate Winslet had been digitally altered to make her appear thinner. "Practically every photo you see in a magazine will have been digitally altered in this way," editor Dylan Jones asserted at the time.
The latest CBS photo faux pas does not seem to rise to the level of last month's controversy over a Reuters stringer who digitally altered at least two photos from the war in Lebanon. The news of the manipulation touched off a storm of controversy and resulted in the photographer's dismissal and the removal of all of his images from the company's archives.
So far the strategy at CBS seems to be to laugh it off.
"I've asked that 3 inches in height be added to my official CBS photo," McManus quipped to the New York Daily News, which broke the story.
"I liked the first picture better because there's more of me to love," the 49-year-old Couric told the paper </pre>
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<pre>Even the 'new Monroe' struggles with cellulite 17:29pm 26th July 2006
In Hollywood's world of air-brushed perfection, Scarlett Johansson's real-life curves have won her a legion of fans.
Now there is another reason to warm to her. Like countless women, it seems the 21-year-old actress has a touch of cellulite.
But she isn't the sort of girl to let a little dimple or two stop her wearing an elegant short dress.
Unveiled as the global new face of sportswear firm Reebok, Miss Johansson displayed the dreaded dimpled skin that, it appears, almost no woman is immune from.
Dressed in a skimpy outfit which hid nothing, she exposed her less than perfect thighs at the launch, which is ironically supposed to be based on the actress's "sporty" look.
In a multi-million pound deal, she will design her own retro-inspired clothing and footwear range which will be known as Scarlett 'hearts' Rbk.
It is likely that chiefs at the sportswear giant picked the actress for her toned body, which she put on show while playing a tennis player in her recent movie Match Point.
Miss Johansson, who models herself on late curvy icon Marilyn Monroe, does her best to remove herself from the painfully skinny look which many of her peers swear by to get acting work.
Instead the Oscar-winning star says she is determined to keep hold of her curves despite pressure to lose weight.
Talking openly about her twig-like colleagues, she said: "Everyone in Hollywood is so skinny and you're constantly feeling like you're not skinny enough."
The actress even showed off her curves alongside slender British star Keira Knightley when both went naked for the cover of Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood edition.
Since catapulting to fame in 1998 with her performance in The Horse Whisperer, Miss Johansson has gone on to become one of Hollywood's most successful young actresses.
In 2004 she won a BAFTA for her lead role in Lost In Translation.
However, while she is a star on the big screen, she has also scooped other fruitful advertising deals, including cosmetic brand L'Oreal, for which she was paid £3 million. </pre>
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