Because BP keeps posting them and because they are so much fun, we've done another installment of our signature BP Press Release Theatre. This one's from a "report" by BP "reporter" Tom Seslar called "Flying higher to get closer to the spill response."
Seslar's point? First, that flying over the Deepwater Horizon is just perfect for "wonderment" and "meditation" -- his words. Second, that we've got to keep drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. "Even the most severe critics of the oil industry tend to accept that reality," he writes, proving that he seriously needs to get out more.
The silliness and affront of BP's propaganda made one of the disaster's hometown papers this week. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that "spill-weary Gulf residents are unlikely to find much in the disaster that inspires them."
On a related note, @BP_America has posted a couple of signed tweets lately. Like this one:
Are to believe that's COO Doug Suttles winking at us? And this is CEO Tony Hayward?
Gulf response remains top priority. Bob Dudley & permanent team now in place to support efforts to make it right. ^Tony http://bit.ly/dAjNWQ
Anyone feel like winking back?
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While the subject matter is indeed sad, Rachel's take on it was positively brilliant!
If, as Joan Baez said, "action is the antidote to despair" we are doing our part here in Chicago July 10 with the rest of the country and the world: a massive protest movement against the use of Corexit 9500 dispersant in the Gulf, which is causing families to send their children out of the region. Fishermen, whose only salary now comes from BP's "cleanup" of the Gulf, are obliged to sign BP's gag order not to talk to the press and are prevented from wearing the protective masks offered by the Health Dept against toxic chemicals used by BP. The wife of one of the shrimpers, Kindra, overcame her fear to speak out: "It starts with one." And that is our rallying cry for the July 10 Protest in order to show our solidarity with her courageous stand against BP life-threatening actions and callous indifference. For details see our site on facebook worldwide BP protest...
I adore Press Release Theater. :-)
after reading those heart-felt tweets, i dont feel so bad for the animals contaminating BP's oil...
Anyone ever read or seen Watership Down? Does anyone remember the rabbit who used to compose and recite poems dedicated to the wire snare trap? That's what this reminds me of. Its PR gone to the far side of wrong and tacky.
If we had him doing war correspondence as well, I think we'd all feel better :D
Perhaps he could even bring the metric system to America, with such moving and stirring prose?
LOL!