Eva Jinek gets a big reprimande from Victor Vlam, the medianer who has been added to today’s guest list Inside. “She tries to catch up with Sophie Hilbrand on the left. Remarkable!”
The refusal of PVV minister Marjolein Faber to put her signature while granting royal ribbons to five volunteers who help refugees led a huge riot last week. Some insiders even feared the end of the cabinet, and so Eva Jinek paid a lot of attention to it.
Activist Eva
However, it disturbs Mediaconner Victor Vlam how Eva did that. “I found the tone of Eva Jinek a bit activist. Let me also state that I didn’t like Minister Faber. I agree with the criticism of her, but what I noticed about Eva Jinek is that she was really very much busy with the fire.”
He points in his podcast The Communicado’s On questions from Eva such as: ‘Rob Jetten, has to say to Faber:’ you can go ‘?’, And: ‘Pieter Omtzigt really made it a point that things had to be done differently. Is he still credible if he accepts this? “
Saw
Co-host Lars Duursma saw a critical EVA. “She was sawing a lot.”
Victor: “She was indeed sawing, yes. You can say that. What these questions have in common is that she asks people to formulate their opinion even sharper. (…) It is an invitation to go even more on the organ. It is a question from Eva Jinek to escalate.”
It bothers him a lot. “I find it striking that she chooses this tone. I think you often see Eva Jinek that she chooses an activist tone.”
Lots of problems
Eva makes it too big, says Victor. “It really went too far for me. I think she made this point too big. I thought to myself: there are many problems in the Netherlands and many of those problems are considerably larger than the fact that Minister Faber has not awarded five people, but who get a ribbon through a different route.”
“To be honest, I thought it was very scornful. I thought of that: I don’t have to. The tone of those questions was aimed at having people in politics take over a sharper position. I think activism and going beyond just as a journalist.”
High -profile
Lars thinks that Eva just wanted to make ‘controversial TV’, especially in view of the spicy debate in The Hague. “Then it would be a bit disappointing from the perspective of Eva Jinek if a very nuanced discussion comes to her table. Then she also wants the fireworks to be at the table, I think. I suspect it just comes from there.”
Victor thinks differently about that. He finds the talk show of Eva to be left. “You can see very clearly that it has become a left -wing talk show where very often criticizes right -wing politicians.”
Left -wing than Sophie?
Is it so bad if Eva is a little more left of the middle? “You have that freedom as Eva Jinek, but then of course I can put that I think I think it is a little bit of acid that my tax money is two left -wing talk shows at the NPO, namely one at seven o’clock and one at ten o’clock: Bar Laat.”
He concludes: “I have the idea that Eva Jinek Sophie Hilbrand was trying to catch up on the left and I really find that quite remarkable.”