@bp_america AMERICAblog's Aravosis busts BP for faking images

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No wonder they can't handle a well safely...they can't even get a Photoshopping job done right.

AMERICAblog's John Aravosis catches BP Photoshopping an image of its command center, and the Washington Post takes note. Writes Aravosis:

I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center. Why do they need a fake photo at all? Don't they have a real crisis response center they could have used?

BP tries to explain itself to the Post:

Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP, said that there was nothing sinister in the photo alteration and provided the original unaltered version. He said that a photographer working for the company had inserted the three images in spots where the video screens were blank.

"Normally we only use Photoshop for the typical purposes of color correction and cropping," Dean said in an e-mail. "In this case they copied and pasted three ROV screen images in the original photo over three screens that were not running video feeds at the time."

The funny thing is that BP stopped linking to the Photoshopped image and has put up the original. So while they claimed to have done nothing wrong, now that they've been caught they are making things right. But if it wasn't wrong to begin with, why are they fixing it? Moreover, Aravosis has found yet another example of BP faking images, so their claim that this was not standard operating procedure is baloney.

It's enough to remind you of Joe Barton, who said he did nothing wrong when he apologized to BP. But he still apologized for apologizing to them anyway. And then it turned out he was just saying the same thing that every other Republican has already said.