{"id":3186,"date":"2008-11-15T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2008-11-17T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:49:31","slug":"the-mississippi-image-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"The Mississippi Image Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wabg-header.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wabg-header.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=100,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wabg-header-tm.jpg\" height=\"43\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Wabg Header\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may be terrible to say, but we don&#8217;t expect all that much from the TV media in Greenville, Mississippi. Not even from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WABG &#8220;Delta&#8217;s #1 News Station.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> That&#8217;s why it didn&#8217;t come as that big a surprise to find that the <strong>ABC<\/strong> network affiliate had &#8220;borrowed&#8221; one of our photos and used it in the header of their corporate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The photo ran in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1101\" target=\"_blank\">a story we posted<\/a><\/strong> on September 18, 2007 about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knsd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KNSD<\/a><\/strong> reporter <strong>Rory Devine<\/strong> covering <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> new entertainment regulations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/photo-theives.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/photo-theives.jpg','popup','width=209,height=257,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/photo-theives-tm.jpg\" height=\"245\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Photo Theives\" \/><\/a>Not only did WABG borrow the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1101\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a><\/strong> from us (and cropped out the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> logo), but they cut <strong>Rory Devine<\/strong> right out of the photo out as well and then Photoshopped their logo on the front of a KNSD&#8217;s live truck.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t know which is more embarrassing, the fact that they hijacked a photo, or that WABG doesn&#8217;t have its own live broadcasting truck. But then why would they. They&#8217;re the &#8220;Delta&#8217;s #1 News Station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to a group of &#8220;Internet friends&#8221; who somehow figured this all out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be terrible to say, but we don&#8217;t expect all that much from the TV media in Greenville, Mississippi. Not even from WABG &#8220;Delta&#8217;s #1 News Station.&#8221; That&#8217;s why it didn&#8217;t come as that big a surprise to find that the ABC network affiliate had &#8220;borrowed&#8221; one of our photos and used it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}