Maybe unrelated, but I went to a local television station's web site with adblocker turned off. There were seven ads disguised as stories (usual outbrain crap) couple of actual ads and eighteen news stories.
Photos for eight of the news stories were stock photos (corporate signs, police light bar, etc.) Five of the stories were press releases converted to news stories, using photos sent by the agency sending the press release. Two of them were crap stories taken from social media (Local high school does one of those cringy multiple people singing a song thing, except they didn't call it cringy.) One story about a church fire uses a photo someone took with their iPhone and emailed them. Three stories where it looks like someone actually showed up to cover the story. Two of those photos were cops standing in a parking lot.
Point is, 90% of these "news" stories were crap that was fed to them, they found a photo for illustration, either provided with the story or taken from a stock agency and uploaded it. A lot of times, there isn't a nefarious intention, but most of it's not verified or even investigated.
The video CBS used for NY was taken from Sky News on Italy. Then CBS used it again as stock footage for Pennsylvania.
The lamestream 'news' is too lazy to use real images most of the time anymore and apparently most of the viewers don't notice or care.