Beyond The Pale May 2, 2010
Posted by Mark Folse in NOLA, Toulouse Street, We Are Not OK.Tags: BP, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill
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“BP’s print and TV ad campaign, which is winding down this month, represents one of the most dazzlingly high-profile corporate P.R. efforts in recent years. Created by Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, it aspires to a conversational, almost confidential voice that suggests, You know what oil companies do to the environment, and we do, too, but honestly, we’re not like that at all. “
– The New York Times Magazine
Dead sea turtle at Waveland, MS Sunday May 2, 2010. Photo by Jenny Lindsay Bell
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The date on that NYT Mag article is 2002, so the video you linked to is probably part of a newer, cuter extension of that original ad effort.
As far as that turtle goes, how do we know it didn’t die of natural causes? What’s the life span on turtles, anyway? Two, three years? Seems rather presumptive that he perished from oily waters.
There were 20 of them found in the same area.
Maybe the turtle committed suicide rather than choke to death on oil.
Is that turtle-icide, I wonder?
I hope my dry sarcasm wasn’t too dry.
I prefer my sarcasam dry and shaken, not stirred. With cocktail onions.