Why do the news organisations manage to find so many really bad photos to choose from.

take this first example over at the BBC – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8554388.stm

So the shambles in York has been voted Britain’s “Most Picturesque” street.  So how do the BBC illustrate this point? A bland, rainy, badly focused shot of a mainly deserted with a distracting To Let sign popping in from top left. Did they just ask around the office to see if anyone had a picture on their phone?

I notice they’re begging for pictures at the bottom, let’s hope they’re lucky.