BP Photoshops Another Official Image, Again Terribly [Bp]

This week it came to light that BP had photoshopped-poorly-an official image of their crisis command center. Apparently, that wasn\’t an isolated incident. Let\’s take a more in-depth examine this view from a helicopter, lets ?

The photo, sent in by a tipster and entitled \” View of the MC 252 site from the cockpit of a PHI S-92 helicopter 26 June 2010,\” shows up here, a bit of BP\’s website that hopes to elucidate their response effort through pictures. This one, sadly, is fabricated.

The the very first thing you would possibly notice out of place is the looming air traffic control tower inside the upper left hand side of the photo:
Then, direct your attention to where the water abruptly changes shades of blue in a frenzy of pixelation, blurring, and a disappearing vessel:
Zeroing in on the pilot on the left, evidence of an attractive sloppy cutting job:
And last, while the helicopter clearly appears to be situated at some height above the boats ahead, the readouts on the dash appear to show that the helicopter\’s height is 1 foot, and that door and ramp are open and the parking brake engaged, not to mention that the pilot appears to be holding a pre-flight checklist:
And so on.

Obviously there are bigger fish to fry with regards to BP. But at any time when they fabricate an image like this, it undermines whatever little credibility they have got left, along side all the actual documentation of the large undertaking this has been and should remain. It speaks to an organization still more involved in image than reality, accountable for repairing something so terribly broken that we will\’t afford to treat it with anything but total candor. [BP]

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