Caught in the Act: BP Publishes Fake Image of Oil Spill Command Center
The atrociousness of BP's handling of the black tide it has pumped into the Gulf becomes more audacious by the day. Today, John Aravosis has revealed that the company has published a fake photo of its crisis response center on the BP website.
On its website, BP originally listed the picture shown above as "HIVE at Houston Command Center, July 16, 2010."
A little analysis shows this image has been totally concocted. As Aravosis highlights the shot has been photoshopped -- and poorly done at. Here is a close-up which allows one to see some of the cutting and pasting.
BP has since apologized for its photoshopped image, and released a new, unedited version:
With all the public scrutiny surrounding BP, it is absolutely amazing that the company not only continues to make such poor public relations decisions, but also continues to offer misinformation to the world.
Read the full story and see all the images at AMERICAblog News: BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site
[Update]: The Guardian reports that BP photoshopped the Houston Command Center because it did not want to have blank monitor screens shown.
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