Question to web developers

I am not sure if this is the right forum sesction for this, please excuse me if it it's not. I have a question for web developers. When you work for a client website, what do you do with the content? I mean, do you upload it yourself, at least the first time, or do you let the client take care of it? The reason I am asking is because I hired a local company for two web sites for two local business. I did the content, even hired professional photographer to take photos of the place and so on and gave everything to them. It took month and a half for each projected to be completed, but here is what they did.
Instead of putting the content I provided, the copy-pasted some random articles from local news websites around my websites. I tried to explaining to them and even postponed the payment for few weeks until they understand. I eventually paid the second 50%(the first 50% was at the beginning of the projects), but I don't understand why instead of copying random articles, they didn't upload my stuff right away? I am not sure if it is their practice or they charge for content management, but I didn't ask about this in the conversations because I thought it would be obvious that this service is included, at least for the first time.
What are your opinions about this case, I am right or wrong? Thanks.