DB$ New$

CBS should change its name to DB$--"Duplicitous Bull$hit".

Let us go down memory lane:

Edward R. Murrow

Walter Cronkite

Dan Rather

(Bush Buddy) Bob Schieffer

Katie Couric

And to remove any nostalgic doubt whatsoever:

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 original picture was snapped in May and was widely circulated to the media as an official photo of Couric.

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.


Full Article, SF Chronicle, August 30, 2006


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