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BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos

Posted by kdawson on from the at-least-hire-a-decent-graphics-jockey dept.

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?

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  1. Re:Who cares (You Should) by Required+Snark · · Score: 5, Interesting
    BP is acting like their major problem is PR. They are not acting like they have committed a major environmental disaster. They are trying to weasel there way out of responsibility in many ways, some of them truly evil. They are trying to silence scientists who might provide evidence against them in both civil and criminal proceedings http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/bp_buys_up_gulf_scientists_for.html

    They are keeping legitimate news organizations away from key locations by pretending that it will interfere with the cleanup. (Just check NPR for reports on this.) They are hiring local off duty cops, IN UNIFORM to keep people from seeing what is going on. When the cop tells someone to leave, you have no idea if they are working as sworn officers of the law or stooges for BP (not that there is much difference). They are paying local fisherman to help in the clean up and exposing them to harmful substances, and keeping them quiet by threatening to kick them off the payroll if they talk to reporters, or tell anyone that they are getting ill from chemical exposure.

    Right after the explosion, they make rig workers sign papers saying they had no injuries BEFORE THEY LET THEM GET ON SHORE. They have consistently lied about how much oil was being released, because penalties are based on a per barrel amount. This is still in process, which is why they were trying to silence local scientists who would be able to provide evidence about how bad the spill is.

    I can't say that they have killed anyone, but they have bullied, lied and intimidated people to a disgusting degree. If you think this is OK, then I suggest you change places with someone who has their life ruined by corporate greed and then see how you feel. Yeah, a little PhotoShop tweaking is no big deal, but when it is a part of a pattern of law breaking and corruption then it is just one more fact that needs to be brought out to insure that the truth is not ignored.

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  2. Speaking as a Brit... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...I do not defend BP's handling of this or their utter incompetency.

    But why so little mention of Halliburton (= big American corporation) who were actually responsible for the drilling site?

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  3. Re:OMG!!!! NOES11111 by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Interesting

    True, but as the imagery business is my business, I submit that in my professional opinion, that statement is a lie.

    According to a previous post, you're a healthcare technician.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1088953&cid=26416793

    So what is it? X-Rays or CAT scanners? And that somehow makes your beliefs a "professional opinion" on photographers and photoshoppers? Oh dear.

    Your "lie" seems a lot more deceptive than the photo you are complaining about.