Where will BP's photoshopped clean-up images stop?

By Alexandra Petri

Maybe here.

What's most disturbing about this is that the level of photo-retouching expertise demonstrated here is only slightly worse than in BP's actual altered images. And I did this in fifteen minutes, using Microsoft Paint.

Here's the original.

A blogger first discovered that BP had been doctoring its online cleanup images -- including one of its control center that showed an image of the exploded well on every screen -- and The Post has since discovered even more instances where photographs were changed.

But as long as BP was going to doctor its images, why not incorporate a plausible excuse for why the cleanup was taking so long? For instance:

Something more like this.

Just a thought!