BP digitally alters press photo, and so do others.

just in case you missed this:
 

 BP digitally alters press photo, confesses it's a fake

msnbc.com  

7/20/2010

A site called Americablog spotted a press photo of BP's Houston command center, ostensibly taken on July 16. The image had quite visibly been Photoshopped — badly — to include more on-screen camera action [in the command center].

 

BP 'fessed up. A spokesman admitted that the image was altered, said that a photographer had inserted shots where the TV screens were blank 

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38333456/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/?gt1=43001

 
 
 
... and a follow-up from Wired:

We asked you last week to help us show BP that when hiring unethical photographers (or photo editors) in the future, they should look for Photoshop proficiency on their resumes.
 
In response, you put the company's pathetic photo-doctoring of oil-cleanup press photos to shame. Your work was not only more skilled, it was far more imaginative.
 
As Kanye West would probably tell BP, "Ima let you finish your top kill, but … "

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/bp-reader-photoshop/

 

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