BP’s Tacky Responses, One Year After the Deepwater Explosion
Does BP actually HAVE a working PR department? The latest bonehead self-inflicted assault on the company image was to prevent five Gulf residents, holding legitimate proxies, from entering the annual shareholder meeting they’d traveled all the way to London to attend.
This on top of the news that the company is suing the other companies involved in construction of the exploded rig for a combined $40 billion; BP has paid out about $4 billion in claims.
Boy am I glad I don’t have the job of making them look good to an increasingly skeptical public.
