BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly
Found on Gizmodo on Wednesday, 21 July 2010
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.
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 section of BP's website that hopes to explain their response effort through pictures.
It speaks to a company still more concerned with image than reality, in charge of repairing something so terribly broken that we can't afford to treat it with anything but total candor.
Things like that make BP lose all credibility. Everybody can screw something up. A few even can screw things up in a way that should have not been possible in the first place. But if you screw up really badly and then try to photoshop your way out, that will backfire really hard.