BP Admits Altering Multiple Official Images [Bp]

BP has acknowledged their practice of photoshopping many of the official images of their Deepwater Horizon clean-up efforts, and has vowed to forestall manipulating photographs going forward. They\’ve also created a Flickr account where you will discover the unaltered originals.

The issue surfaced two days ago, when Americablog first unearthed a doctored photo of BP\’s crisis command center. Yesterday, we posted the clearly photoshopped picture of the helicopter cockpit above. A third previously undiscovered manipulation of the Sim Ops room also shows up on the Flickr page:
BP told Telegraph UK that they\’ve issued a new guideline to \” refrain from doing (sic) cutting-and-pasting\” one day.

What\’s galling in regards to the photoshop jobs-apart from how poorly they were done-is how unnecessary they all are. The command center looks plenty busy without extra screen images, the helicopter shot is even more captivating after we know that they\’re on a helipad about to launch (and at least explains that looming tower), and the Sim Ops changes are barely noticeable. But by altering the official documentation of the event, BP erodes whatever trust we now have in them even further at a time after we need and should know exactly what\’s happening.

So good for BP on coming clean, on posting the pictures, and on stopping the silly obfuscation. Now let\’s all come back to the clean-up, the remuneration, and your entire other things that basically matter. [Telegraph UK]

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