News sites just add random stock pictures. If a story is about airplanes, someone adds a random photo of a plane. Not a plane that has anything to do with the story. Not necessarily the correct type of plane. Or even a plane from the same manufacturer. But they want to show readers a plane.

Stories about construction projects will feature stock photos of people in hardhats, taken years ago and half a world away.

I guess people like pictures and it's expensive to go take relevant ones. My mind still boggles. Can you imagine newspapers doing this 30 years ago?