This range of a function was put up on BP ’s main site until yesterday . appear at all of those the great unwashed working so hard to stem the fossil oil calamity ! Now front a little closer . Now be appalled that it ’s egregiously — and very poorly — photoshopped . UPDATED :
Americablog firstcaught the deception , which was n’t awful punishing to catch given what a slapdash job BP did . For the most part , it seems as though images of the current tragedy were swerve and pasted on top of white screen :
Yeesh . And just for fun , here ’s a whole raft of abominable ‘ shopping from the main pic :

And as if all that were n’t bad enough , the filing cabinet ’s metadata evoke the original shot was taken way back 2001 :
So what happened here , exactly ? grant tothe Washington Post :
Scott Dean , a spokesman for BP , said that there was nothing black in the photograph alteration and provided the original unaltered interlingual rendition . He said that a photographer work for the caller had inserted the three images in stain where the television screens were blank .

The idea that a “ professional ” could have done such a soggy business is laughable on its font . And BP ’s posting of what they say is theundoctored photodoes nothing to explain the metadata .
More to the distributor point though : really , BP ? You do n’t have an active enough crisis command center as it is ? I acknowledge public relations are the most of import thing you ’ve got to interest about right now , but frankly this is pathetic .
UPDATE : BPhas admit that they manipulate the imageand has posted the originalhere . [ AmericablogviaGeekosystem ]

https://gizmodo.com/bp-admits-altering-multiple-official-images-5593565
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