When tons of people are posting photos of an event to Twitter and Instagram, it makes sense that the press would request to use some of those photos. It's a little funny to see, and also to see how confusing the ownership of the photos gets.
Here's a pic of a felled tree in CT, with a request to use the photo from local news below
Here was a great photo of flooding in Red Hood:
And here is everyone who requested to use it:
