Quote, unquote: BP online magazine struggles to find the bright side of its oil disaster

“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,” another report says. Indeed, one tourist official in a local town makes it clear that “BP has always been a very great partner of ours here…We have always valued the business that BP sent us.”

-- Planet BP, the in-house online magazine of BP tries to put the best possible spin on the massive, out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil disaster [as reported by the Wall Street Journal]