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BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos
An anonymous reader tipped a post up on Americablog revealing that BP Photoshopped a fake photo of their crisis command center and posted it on their main site. The blogger commented, "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center." While this story was just being picked up by the Washington Post, an Americablog reader spotted another doctored BP photo on their website, this time of a "top kill" working group. How many others?
What? Both photos are clearly more photoshopped than that, with cut in faces and background to manipulate the viewers into thinking BP has control and is concerned.
It deserves to be uncovered on a blog
Hardly. This is about as noteworthy as "Teenage girls photoshops Facebook photos", or "Facial-cream company photoshops advertisements". Who gives a shit? The only thing that's at all interesting about this is watching so many people go completely off the rails in their criticism of BP.
You're a disingenuous troll who attacks straw men and I wish you would DIAF. Thanks for helping make slashdot grate.
Knowing that they'd go to such lengths (albeit haphazardly) to doctor--and subsequently lie about--the photos further damages that credibility.
Five minutes of photoshop, followed by a single statement which you believe to be false? You consider those to be extraordinary lengths? If so, you must be the laziest man in existence!
The GP did not say "extraordinary lengths" but "such lengths". The logical fallacy you commit here is known as attacking a straw man. You then use the propaganda technique of labeling to describe the GP as "lazy" for his beliefs in an attempt to change public perception. Furthermore, you have also used the technique of disinformation when you reduce this act to "five minutes of photoshop".
In actuality, it took more than five minutes even to do that shitty job in photoshop, then the conspiracy to mislead the public leapt into action as the image was disseminated. It took more than one person to perform this action intended to mislead the public, which is what makes it a conspiracy; any time two or more people get together to dupe one or more other people, you're looking at a conspiracy. This is simply one small action in BP's general conspiracy to make the public believe they give a fuck about this oil spill. They don't, really, except as it hurts the bottom line, and history tells us that BP's bottom line will not be hurt enough to stop them from carrying out these irresponsible engineering projects.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Blogs (and bloggers) should die.
Stupid story. Everyone photoshops. There is not a brochure or magazine that hasn't been tweaked.