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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?
Who gives a shit if they're British, American, or what. They are criminals who have caused irreparable damage to the environment. The company should be seized and every penny of their assets should be headed toward cleaning up the mess they made and creating the necessary conditions to make sure it never happens again. Anyone involved in the decision-making who wants to stay out of prison ought to be working fulltime for those goals. It's pathetic that we're treating this like a minor understandable mistake. They punched a fucking hole in the gulf and it took them months to even start sealing it. What are we doing in response? Letting them punch another one in the arctic.
In most jokes there's a grain of truth -- that's why we laugh.
There are at least a couple of Freemasonry orders where you as part of the rites of ascending in rank have to sacrifice a live animal. The chances that many of the BP execs are Freemasons is pretty high, and the chance that they belong to one of those orders isn't negligible.
But anyhow, yes, it's wrong to slam BP for everything. They work in a corrupt and badly designed system where corporations by law are ultimately responsible to the shareholders, not their customers and far future. It's their legal obligation to put a spin and reduce economic damages to their stock.
Slam the system, not just BP.
Well, If I were doing what those guys were, and someone sent me such a memo, I'd .. well, I'd probably just toss it in the bin, and get on with important work.
And as your manager I would be extremely pissed off that you were unable to understand "other duties as required". Doing PR is part of any company's job. If you're pure, concentrated evil like BP, then your PR consists primarily of lies. If you're the nicest guy in the world, you can tell the truth all day. Your job is to never look like you're lying. Your employee's jobs include anything you require of them that is not illegal. And all they'd have had to do to look busier in this case is to turn on some more monitors.
If anything, this shows that they are focusing on the clean-up work, and some less important PR stuff is slipping. As it should be.
There is no conflict between clean-up work and PR. Instead, they photoshopped the pictures to make it look like they were doing more work than they really are. If they'd do that, then why should we believe they're not doing other things to make it look like they're working harder than they are? In fact, we SHOULD believe that, due to both ample evidence and historical record of BP failure. THIS is just icing. It's proof they haven't changed their spots.
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It's not Bush's fault?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
They edited the photo to put images on some blank screens. Ooohh, what an evil thing. I say we round them all up and shoot them for this horrible breech. I swear this is on par with that guy who added bombs and smoke and stuff to that Israel bombing Hamas picture. Yes, covering blank screens is even worse than that! /sarcasm
Would you people please get a fucking grip?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Don't let your ego run away without you. You're not worth stalking.
Yeah, all the stalkers say that. Actions speak louder than words.
Using Ad Hominem instead of responding to my comment only proves my point. You're here to troll.
Naw, I'm just not here to throw pearls to swine. I don't see any reason to seriously address an individual who constantly makes appeals to logical fallacies while simultaneously posting irrational drek. If you actually care about logic and rationalism, go check out the JREF or the Sceptics Society. Maybe we can have a discussion after you've learned to be a reasonable human being.