All day long, Americablog has been picking apart a promotional photo from BP showing the alleged BP Deepwater Horizon command center. It turns out that the entire command center seems to have been composed—and composed poorly—in Photoshop.
In their defense, BP claims that some of the screens were blank and the photographer inserted images onto those screens. This is not a very smart response if they’re trying to convince us that the command center is anything but a ruse. Americablog is working to uncover additional fake crisis response photos, too. (Although commenters say it looks like the latter photo might just be a bad job of adjusting the lightness of the photo in post-production rather than out-and-out manipulation.)
This is a minor scandal as far as this whole crisis is concerned but it’s emblematic of something larger, I think: BP is too goddamned cheap to even fake this properly—all they’d have to do if they wanted to pull one over on us was hire some actors and build a phony crisis response set. If they can’t even be bothered to get this right, their contempt for the American people is probably bottomless.
Adobe’s redoing some of their apps to have them run in a sandbox on Windows, fwiw.
Never blame the technology for the evil that lurks in the robotic heart of Dick Cheney and his lackies.
http://nearestexit.com/bp/bp_commandcent…
Photoshop of the day!
This is as overblown as the Shirley Sherrod smear. The photographer didn’t insert new monitors or technology, they didn’t make the command center appear bigger or more staffed…they changed blank screens where the cameras were pivoted on something boring, and made the photo a little more visually interesting.
Big. fucking. deal.
The left has their lynch mob just as much as the right (and funny how americablog seems to play this role every time).
I’m sure federal officials that Brietbart committed a felony fraud against agree that it’s not a big deal to LIE.
@3 nice false equivalency.
@3 The point is, they should’ve approached this honestly, and not ‘shopped in screen images where there were none. Also, if you read the whole piece, you’ll note that the original photo was actually taken in 2001.
The big. fucking. deal. here is that BP is lying to us — sure, for now it’s just a photo. But what else are they lying/have they lied about? It just goes to show that their willingness to deceive knows no bounds.