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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?
The first photo had some easy to spot glitches and EXIF data that indicated the photo was nine years old.
The second photo was so obviously photoshopped it was ridiculous.
Clearly there's a business opportunity here, I know I could throw together much better fakes in under an hour and even if I billed them for a full day of labor it would probably still cost them less than what this horribly botched photoshop job cost them...
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Also, When can the UK expect Obama to come over and talk with minor MPs to talk about US banks ruining costing the country billions and to pay the British citizens compensation?
If I was Cameron I would have just ignored those senators. The UK doesn't tell the US what to do with their prisoners, the US shouldn't tell the UK what to do with theirs. The guy probably would have been released on appeal anyway. The evidence against him was shockingly bad and should've been laughed out of court.
BP posted the original. All they photochopped were three of the screens, two of which were blank (one says "loading") and one of which looks like it's staring directly at a bright light. You'll also notice the source for the replacement screens are just three of the other existing screens.
Essentially it's a piss poor (and I mean PISS poor... anyone with photoshop experience could hack that trash out in minutes) touch-up by a company that should be acutely aware of it's current reputation.
TLDR version.... BP /facepalm
The prisoner he's talking about is Lockerbie bomber, al-Megrahi, who was released on compassionate grounds to die at home of agressive cancer, the recent news being that he might now live another ten years or more (although why his release should cause anti-British feeling is beyond me, it was a Scottish executive decision that most people in Britain were against and the British parliament had no say in, and in fact I think the three parties were all against the release). And if "[the] guy probably would have been released on appeal anyway", then he should have appealed. As it stands he's a convicted terrorist guilty of the biggest mass murder in the country's history and he was allowed to go home on "compassionate" grounds, it's not just people in the US who were angry over this by a long chalk. It was heavily rumoured at the time that the motivator in Scotland releasing al-Megrahi was Libyan oil (lots of oil companies wanted to open talks with Libya but al-Megrahi's imprisonment was a barrier, not to mention Scotland has a lot of experience in the oil industry and stands to benefit selling that expertise) - of course the oil link was widely refuted at the time, but now there have been suggestions (again refuted) that BP directly lobbied for the release.