According to this post by the Wall Street Journal reporter and blogger Benoit Faucon, "the April 20 spill on the Deepwater Horizon is being reinvented in Planet BP as a strike of luck."
According to Faucon, the article in BP Planet — a BP online, in-house magazine — reports “much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams.”
Well, that's one way of looking at it, I guess. So what do you think? A gutsy and uncompromising piece of PR by BP's media office, or a level of spin that would put even a West Texas tornado to shame?
According to Faucon, the article in BP Planet — a BP online, in-house magazine — reports “much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams.”
Well, that's one way of looking at it, I guess. So what do you think? A gutsy and uncompromising piece of PR by BP's media office, or a level of spin that would put even a West Texas tornado to shame?
2 comments:
Gutsy and uncompromising? No. More like shockingly cavalier and despicably indifferent to the massive ecological and economical damage they've wrought!
Any SOB who'd try to put a positive spin on devastation of this magnitude should be strung up by his short hairs.
Rob, I suspect you speak for A LOT of people in your assessment. The PR person in me i still shaking his head. Thanks for the input.
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