BP Used Altered Image Of Command Center

Caught by AmericaBlog, BP put a photoshopped image of its command center to seemingly make it appear more active.

Oddly, BP is now claiming that the photo is real – but it showed blank screens, and rather than show blank screens at AP’s crisis center, they instead put fake content-filled screens in the photo. Uh, a few questions.

BP says it’s all benign.

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.

The altered photo wasn’t even altered properly, meaning BP can’t even properly fake something.

An enlarged version of the photograph reveals flaws in the editing job. One of the 10 images sticks down into the head of one of the people sitting in front of the wall, while another piece of the image is separated from the other side of the head by jagged white space. The right side of the same image also hangs down below the area on which the video feeds were projected.

Here is the original photo:

And here’s the way BP or its photographer wants the command center to look:

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.