Claudia de Breij believes that the news about the departure of Angela de Jong as a TV columnist is very blown up, she shows in her column in the Varagids. “We all do something.”
It marks the end of an era: Angela de Jong stops writing pieces about television. She becomes a general columnist of the AD and that means that she will no longer watch TV evenings in the hope of catching someone for an error. A relief for the well-known Netherlands, a loss for the TV opiniel landscape.
What does Claudia think?
Claudia de Breij believes that there is a lot of attention for this kind of news, she shows. “Israel commits a genocide on the Palestinians and in the Netherlands it becomes punishable to help refugees in need,” she starts in her column.
Dan Cynisch: “Furthermore, it is wonderful terrace weather and Angela de Jong stops her television column. No successor has been found yet.”
Blablabla
A columnist or not: according to Claudia it is not all that important. “Angela is now about writing everything. Because she not only knows about television, but everything. Great, seems to me.”
In the end it is all a lot of blabla, she then says. “I have not learned anything for anything and yet I can regularly fill space with my opinion here.”
‘Do what’
Does Claudia trivialize the profession of columnist? Yes. “We all do something. For columnists that may not be that bad. I am not sure for politicians.”
She concludes, sneering to the fallen cabinet: “Maybe it doesn’t really matter what you studied, but that you take your work a little seriously would help.”