Ο John Aravosis, Αμερικανός μπλόγκερ κάνει ρεζίλι τήν BP και την αναγκάζει να παραδεχθεί ότι δίνει στα παραδοσιακά ΜΜΕ "πειραγμένες" φωτογραφίες...
Ενας μπλόγκερ (Ελληνοαμερικανός μάλιστα) αποκάλυψε ότι η BP έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα φωτογραφίες απο τήν αίθουσα ελέγχου , οι οποίες όμως ήταν πειραγμένες με φωτοσόπ.
Μάλιστα στό μπλόγκ του δημοσίευσε και τίς πραγματικές φωτογραφίες με όλες τίς αποδείξεις τού πειράγματος απο την BP αναλυτικά...
Μάλιστα η BP μπροστά στίς αποκαλύψεις προτίμησε να παραδεχθεί τήν λαθροχειρία και να ζητήσει συγνώμη (πάντως ο εκπρόσωπος τής εταιρείας δήλωσε στην Ουάσινγκτον πόστ ότι δέν υπήρχε στό όλο θέμα κάτι πονηρό ή επιλήψιμο, παραδέχθηκε βέβαια το γεγονός)...
Τό όλο θέμα φυσικά προκάλεσε μεγάλο θόρυβο στην Αμερική αλλά και σέ όλον τον πλανήτη....
Να σημειώσουμε ότι το θέμα τής BP και τού όλου χειρισμού θεωρείται στην Αμερική σημαντικότατο θέμα ισάξιο με την ιστορία τών δίδυμων πύργων...
Με αυτήν την έννοια η παρέμβαση ενός μπλόγκερ σέ ένα πλανητικό - κατά βάση - θέμα δίνει ακόμα μεγαλύτερο κύρος στά εναλλακτικά ΜΜΕ ....
Δείτε εδώ τίς δύο φωτογραφίες πάνω την πραγματική και κάτω την πειραγμένη , αυτην δηλαδή πού έδωσε η εταιρεία στά παραδοσιακά ΜΜΕ.
Διαβάζουμε απο το μπλόγκ τού Αραβόζη....
BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site
by John Aravosis (DC) on 7/19/2010 10:37:00 PM
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(H/t to AK for spotting this.)
UPDATE 12:08PM Eastern 7/20/10: BP has faked yet another oil crisis response photo on its Web site.
UPDATE: 11:14PM Eastern: BP has now posted the "original" photo, they claim. Except - surprise - they are refusing to post the high-resolution version of the new "original" photo (update: they've now posted the original photo). They posted the high-res version of the altered photo earlier, and in fact, that version is still live via a link below the new photo. Why not post the high-res version of the new "original" photo? Afraid someone is going to enlarge it and find out it's fake too?
UPDATE 10:37PM Eastern: The Washington Post has the story now. 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.
1) Why were the screens in the crisis center blank in the middle of the crisis? Coffee break?
2) The BP spokesman claims that the photographer photoshopped the changes. Really? A professional photographer hired by BP Photoshops so poorly that a 12 year old kid could do a better job. Really? Let me show you what BP said exactly, and then the photo that supposedly this "professional" edited:
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.
Now here is the Photoshop job that the "professional" photographer did - this is just one part of the photo that he screwed up:
Anyone who has ever used Photoshop knows that this is an incredibly amateur job. I can do far better than this, and I tend to play with Photoshop for fun. We're to believe that a professional photographer did this poor a job, for pay, for a huge corporate client? Really? No one would hire this photographer again if this is true. Oh, and the photographer added the fake screens to the photo, what, without BP's permission? That's what they're implying, "the photographer did it."
3) Why does the meta data show that the photo was actually taken on March 6, 2001? Or is BP next going to tell us that their professional photographer has never set the time and date stamp on his multi-thousand dollar camera? Because then all of his photos for all of his clients will be screwed up. Really?
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UPDATE: The photo contains data suggesting it was taken in 2001, not July of 2010 as claimed on BP's Web site. That would suggest, at least one possibility is, that BP took an old photo and Photoshopped new pictures of the oil spill over it, to make it look "new." More on this at the end of the post.
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?
Original BP Photo that is linked off of this page, with a snippet of the photo:
Note the bad Photoshop job on the parts I cropped and blew up - click on each photo to see the larger version, which makes it painfully clear that they faked the photo (poorly, at that):
UPDATE: BP has apologized for the Photoshopped version of its command center, and it has just released this new, unedited version.
In all seriousness, an astute reader noticed that the meta info for the photo says it was created in 2001, not July 16, 2010 as claimed on BP's site. It looks like BP took a photo from 2001, and in order to make it look like the command center in July of 2010, they pasted pictures of the oil well leaking over the old photo.
http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html
Μάλιστα στό μπλόγκ του δημοσίευσε και τίς πραγματικές φωτογραφίες με όλες τίς αποδείξεις τού πειράγματος απο την BP αναλυτικά...
Μάλιστα η BP μπροστά στίς αποκαλύψεις προτίμησε να παραδεχθεί τήν λαθροχειρία και να ζητήσει συγνώμη (πάντως ο εκπρόσωπος τής εταιρείας δήλωσε στην Ουάσινγκτον πόστ ότι δέν υπήρχε στό όλο θέμα κάτι πονηρό ή επιλήψιμο, παραδέχθηκε βέβαια το γεγονός)...
Τό όλο θέμα φυσικά προκάλεσε μεγάλο θόρυβο στην Αμερική αλλά και σέ όλον τον πλανήτη....
Να σημειώσουμε ότι το θέμα τής BP και τού όλου χειρισμού θεωρείται στην Αμερική σημαντικότατο θέμα ισάξιο με την ιστορία τών δίδυμων πύργων...
Με αυτήν την έννοια η παρέμβαση ενός μπλόγκερ σέ ένα πλανητικό - κατά βάση - θέμα δίνει ακόμα μεγαλύτερο κύρος στά εναλλακτικά ΜΜΕ ....
Δείτε εδώ τίς δύο φωτογραφίες πάνω την πραγματική και κάτω την πειραγμένη , αυτην δηλαδή πού έδωσε η εταιρεία στά παραδοσιακά ΜΜΕ.
Διαβάζουμε απο το μπλόγκ τού Αραβόζη....
BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site
by John Aravosis (DC) on 7/19/2010 10:37:00 PM
UPDATE: Show BP you mean business, donate to AMERICAblog. If you like our hard-hitting activist journalism, then please donate and help us continue our work. Thanks so much.
(H/t to AK for spotting this.)
UPDATE 12:08PM Eastern 7/20/10: BP has faked yet another oil crisis response photo on its Web site.
UPDATE: 11:14PM Eastern: BP has now posted the "original" photo, they claim. Except - surprise - they are refusing to post the high-resolution version of the new "original" photo (update: they've now posted the original photo). They posted the high-res version of the altered photo earlier, and in fact, that version is still live via a link below the new photo. Why not post the high-res version of the new "original" photo? Afraid someone is going to enlarge it and find out it's fake too?
UPDATE 10:37PM Eastern: The Washington Post has the story now. 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.
1) Why were the screens in the crisis center blank in the middle of the crisis? Coffee break?
2) The BP spokesman claims that the photographer photoshopped the changes. Really? A professional photographer hired by BP Photoshops so poorly that a 12 year old kid could do a better job. Really? Let me show you what BP said exactly, and then the photo that supposedly this "professional" edited:
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.
Now here is the Photoshop job that the "professional" photographer did - this is just one part of the photo that he screwed up:
Anyone who has ever used Photoshop knows that this is an incredibly amateur job. I can do far better than this, and I tend to play with Photoshop for fun. We're to believe that a professional photographer did this poor a job, for pay, for a huge corporate client? Really? No one would hire this photographer again if this is true. Oh, and the photographer added the fake screens to the photo, what, without BP's permission? That's what they're implying, "the photographer did it."
3) Why does the meta data show that the photo was actually taken on March 6, 2001? Or is BP next going to tell us that their professional photographer has never set the time and date stamp on his multi-thousand dollar camera? Because then all of his photos for all of his clients will be screwed up. Really?
______________________________________
UPDATE: The photo contains data suggesting it was taken in 2001, not July of 2010 as claimed on BP's Web site. That would suggest, at least one possibility is, that BP took an old photo and Photoshopped new pictures of the oil spill over it, to make it look "new." More on this at the end of the post.
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?
Original BP Photo that is linked off of this page, with a snippet of the photo:
Note the bad Photoshop job on the parts I cropped and blew up - click on each photo to see the larger version, which makes it painfully clear that they faked the photo (poorly, at that):
UPDATE: BP has apologized for the Photoshopped version of its command center, and it has just released this new, unedited version.
In all seriousness, an astute reader noticed that the meta info for the photo says it was created in 2001, not July 16, 2010 as claimed on BP's site. It looks like BP took a photo from 2001, and in order to make it look like the command center in July of 2010, they pasted pictures of the oil well leaking over the old photo.
http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html
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