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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 ever happened to the days where you'd get some skilled laborers and build a set, hire actors and fake a photo LEGITIMATELY?
For one thing. Why the hell does it matter? It's an
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Yeah, I drew a blank on this one, too.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Ever seen a woman wear makeup...?
More importantly, ever wake up next to her the next morning and seen the reality of the same face without makeup?
No, I haven't. :(
You must be new here.
The court of public opinion has decided that oil = bad. If a BP exec were caught on camera tickling a puppy, there would be at least a half-dozen sites declaring "Evil BP overlords publicly torture puppies".
Ever seen a woman wear makeup...?
More importantly, ever wake up next to her the next morning and seen the reality of the same face without makeup? Can be a scary thing sometimes, perhaps best left unseen.
I have and I now only have one arm!
Well, the evidence is circumstantial; but they've sure lubricated a lot of blowholes in the past few months... That suggests intent.
I photoshopped myself next to one once, does that count?
Yeah, because that photographer should be out there mopping up oil and controlling ROVs to place a new cap instead of, you know, taking photographs and photoshopping them to make them presentable.
And don't get me started on the guys working security in the BP office buildings - they've done NOTHING to help with this crisis response. They're not even drilling relief wells!
The technical term for this ritual is "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings", and yes it does involve the sacrifice of dozens of animals. The fact that the actual slaughter is conducted by anointed priests in a remote temple does nothing to change it.
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
The EXIF data only indicates that they probably didn't set their camera clock or it got reset changing the batteries.
Don't forget Occam's Razor! Is that really the simplest explanation that fits the known facts? No, not by a long shot! You know how much money oil industry has. It's practically certain they have time machine, which they've used to transfer the command center back in time, to a random time before the accident. That way they could take a photo without showing the panic and chaos there is today, so that they appear to be in control of the situation.