This is an interesting story in Public Relations (PR). BP runs a "command center" that monitors some aspects of the spill and the cleanup. They proudly put these monitoring photos up on their website. Now they have PR disaster. I urge you to read the story so you'll understand the specifics.
On the broader note, and this goes to the Breitbart fiasco as well, when you doctor up photos to deceive the viewer it is the same thing as lying in text. How can anyone believe you after you do it? How does anyone know that you haven't done it this time? No one can be sure.
Many of us have long ago concluded that BP is a lie machine in their own interests. That may seem a little harsh but their attempts are so ham-handed, like Breitbart, that they get picked off like ducks in the carnival shooting gallery. It is just too easy. Why do this? Why?
On the broader note, and this goes to the Breitbart fiasco as well, when you doctor up photos to deceive the viewer it is the same thing as lying in text. How can anyone believe you after you do it? How does anyone know that you haven't done it this time? No one can be sure.
Many of us have long ago concluded that BP is a lie machine in their own interests. That may seem a little harsh but their attempts are so ham-handed, like Breitbart, that they get picked off like ducks in the carnival shooting gallery. It is just too easy. Why do this? Why?