Friday, July 23, 2010
(graphic: Gizmodo)
As if BP didn’t have enough public relations problems on its hands stemming from the gulf oil spill, it turns out the oil company doctored some of the photos it released to the media demonstrating its response to the disaster.
First, BP communications was caught sending out a photo of its spill command center that showed personnel acting busier than they really were.
The next day, another BP photo was exposed to have been “photoshopped”—and badly too—when the website Gizmodo noticed several problems with the image of a helicopter crew flying over the ocean towards the scene of the spill. The blunders included leaving part of a control tower in the upper left corner of the picture, as well as showing the pilot holding a pre-flight checklist and the helicopter’s control gauges indicating its door and ramp were open and its parking brake engaged.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
BP Admits It 'Photoshopped' Official Images as Oil Spill 'Cut and Paste' Row Escalates (by Andrew Hough, Telegraph)
BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly (by Brian Barrett, Gizmodo)
BP Photoshops Fake Photo of Crisis Command Center, Posts on Main BP Site (by John Aravosis, Americablog)
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