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08/30/2006: "Do Not Adjust Your Set"

Ever since it was announced that Katie Couric would take over as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, the network brass have gone to great lengths to emphasize the serious nature of their choice. The historical lack of opportunties for women at the network level - not to mention Couric's own fluffy past - has kept the PR department in overdrive as they prepare for next Monday's first broadcast.

So one can only imagine the horror felt at the highest levels when it was learned this morning that CBS's own graphics department had Photoshopped a published image of Katie to make her look more, well ... sexy.

They knocked about 20 lbs off the 49-yr-old Couric, and emphasized her curves. Needless to say, CBS is saying all the right things about how this was not authorized and will not be tolerated, yada, yada, yada.

It's been over 40 years since MLK called for us be to judged by character and not by other shallower attributes. Yet time and time again, no matter whether race, or gender, or religion, when the pressure is on we show just how far we have to go ...

Give 'em hell on Monday, Katie!!