There is a place where the Gulf oil disaster has a silver lining. Where brave BP employees forgo sleep and comfort in the name of the greater good. Where “aw shucks” fishermen don’t hold grudges and say the spill isn’t BP’s fault. Where the environmental catastrophe serves to bring out the best in us and reminds us of the fragile beauty of the human condition. That place is BP’s company blog.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted some choice quotes from a recent issue of BP Planet, the company’s internal, online magazine. But BP is also publishing a publicly accessible blog about the Gulf spill response, staffed by a pair of company reporters who paint rosy pictures of the front lines in dispatch after dispatch.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=124800