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Sunday, February 09, 2014

IS THIS WHY WBOC CALLS THEMSELF DELMARVA'S NEWS LEADER?

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    Golden Corral In Salisbury Flips The Bird To A Homecoming Soldier So was going to throw James McCreary a welcome home dinner at Golden Corral in...
  • Golden Corral In Salisbury Flips The Bird To A Homecoming Soldier

    So was going to throw James McCreary a welcome home dinner at Golden Corral in Salisbury tonight. I made plans OVER a month ago and signed a contract with Golden Corral to have the banquet room with a projection screen TO WELCOME HOME OUR SOLDIER!!!

    Decorations, and countless money later...Golden Corral calls me A HALF HOUR AGO and tells me that my party of 35+ will have to be maneuvered into a "corner around the fire place" and that they would try to "get us as close together as they can" with no projection screen, and we can't decorate because Tuesday night is movie night for kids.

    I was promised a banquet room with projection screen for our party and the ability to come in early and decorate and do a powerpoint presentation. Now, our dinner reservation wasn't even until 7 pm, which leaves an hour into dinner service (of which I have been told movie night had been slow lately, and my reservation was absolutely in line and ready to go) ... but NOW they will not honor my contract that THEY APPROVED A MONTH AGO.

    They even went so far as to say that the owner just cannot honor my contract because an hour of kids movie night in both rooms is more important than a contract and a party of 35+ people. Oh and to those who aren't aware that comes to a bill of almost $500.00+ that Golden Corral has lost from us because they have acted in such a heinous nature.

    Where is customer service? Where is honoring a contract? Where is your pride in welcoming back an american soldier???

    So, with that said, my family, my extended family and my friends will now be celebrating OUR SOLDIER'S COMING HOME @ FLAMING GRILL in Salisbury tonight at 7 pm. Flaming Grill was so gracious and actually excited to help us out in any way possible and are allowing us to come in early to decorate and everything! So Shame on you Golden Corral, shame on you for nearly wrecking a welcome home party for OUR SOLDIER.... you will no longer be receiving any of my business or my family's business ever again.
Remember Ladies & Gentlemen, I CREATED THE TITLE. There is NO CREDIT or link to Salisbury News whatsoever. Is that copyright infringement, or what????

I now have to wonder, how many articles that we publish each day are going up on WBOC or Facebook in which they are simply taking our material. 

They have hit rock bottom as far as I'm concerned and they should be ashamed of themselves. I'll never forget my last conversation with their General Manager based around this very same topic. he said, are you calling me a liar. Well Craig Jahelka, here's living proof that you are. 

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is the people at the top of WBOC to blame.

Anonymous said...

i think that is copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property

Anonymous said...

Wow this is amazing. They need to pay you damages. I will never watch them again.

Anonymous said...

I believe that Google will penalize their site for stealing and plagiarism though, so you'll probably still outrank them

Anonymous said...

Sue, sue, sue, These are dishonest people. Make them pay Joe because it's the only way to stop them. They are profiting off of your hard work!

Anonymous said...

They are so dumb they don't even try to hide it or enhance it some way! News leader RFLMFAO

Anonymous said...

unreal Sue them Joe.

Anonymous said...

Joe, you need to go after them fro copyright infringement. Talk about word for word copying.

Anonymous said...

Why can't we all just get-a-long? Have a face to face discussion with the powers to be at WBOC, maybe you have, but, trying to work out stuff like this one on one should prove to be less expensive and time consuming???? I know you are busy keeping this great site updated, so just pick your battles, you are already better than the rest of the local news reports!!!!

Anonymous said...

They misspell the names of people they interview all the time.

Anonymous said...

i stopped watching that crappy station years ago. just spread the word people! word of mouth can do just as much damage as a lawsuit.

BOYCOTT WBOC!

Anonymous said...

Plagerism, yes. Unethical, yes. Copyright infringement, probably not.

Anonymous said...

Best to move on from this Golden Corral issue.Readers have already sworn to stop eating at GC and to stop watching WBOC.If you have that kind of power over people encourage them to do something constructive.

Anonymous said...

1:05 You utterly, completely miss the point. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT is a huge crime. How would you like it if someone stole from you.

Geesh. Joe, I think it's time you get a lawyer.

Anonymous said...

1:05

did somebody twist your arm and force you to click this article?

i encourage you to do something useful....choke yourself

Anonymous said...

1:31 You missed the point that it isn't copyright infringement, genius.

Anonymous said...

WBOC! Delmarva's PLAGIARISM LEADER!

Anonymous said...

2:08 Did you not read where that was Joe's headline?

Anonymous said...

3:39 Yes, I did. However, I did not see any copyright marks or notes on said headline. What they did was copy, plagiarize, unethical, etc.

Anonymous said...

WBOC weather man Dan Satterfield is a moron. So is Steve Haymond.

Anonymous said...

Upper management has friends that copy what you put out there and put it on their facebook page so they can get credit for it. They do this all the time.

Anonymous said...

Well I went to WMDT tonight and watched their show instead. It actually wasn't all that bad. Goodbye WBOC.

Anonymous said...

For quite some time I have listened to WMDT's weather forecasts, I have found them more reliable. I'm not talking lately, I'm talking years!

Anonymous said...

Actually Joe, apparently WBOC is depending on you for relevant programming content. You are an immense help to our pathetic local TV station.