You look at the bright smiles and cheesy grins and ask yourself … would Laurie Oakes have behaved like this?

TV try-hard mini celebrities claiming to be journalists queuing up to get a picture with Therapeutic Albo and Labor’s Chris Minns.

Any wonder the public has no confidence in their independence or interest in mainstream news.

The selfie/idiot generation has taken over.

This is what really goes on when the cameramen stop recording.