The media feud between Victor Vlam and Tina Nijkamp is taking very violent forms. He destroys her Sunday rest by going all out on the abacus from Bathmen in his podcast. “Aggressive!”
This week it is the main topic of Victor Vlam’s media podcast: the always good-natured Tina Nijkamp. This week she was a bit hysterical about some Chinese skater at the Olympic Games, but people generally forgive her because she is a bit emotional in the competition because of her Asian adopted children.
Aggressive Tina
However, Victor immediately slammed Tina and now saws her off by the ankles in his podcast. Not exactly collegial, but he clearly values it very highly. “According to Tina you should call him (that skater, ed.) by his name, because if you say ‘that Chinese’, then that is racist according to her,” he snorts. Victor Indicates TV.
Victor’s first critical note immediately irritated Tina, who did not want to argue with him. “Yes, I got quite a scolding,” he says. “It was a fairly aggressive reaction. It was also (put on an agitated voice, ed.): ‘Dear Victor Vlam! You are taking the statements out of context and you are just stoking the fire!’”
‘This is a bit strange’
Silly, Victor thinks. “I thought to myself: yes, wait a minute, I can respond to what you think, right? Isn’t that the intention? You are a columnist at a major newspaper, you throw the bat into the fowl and then I think it is the job of others to respond to that. In fact, as a columnist you should want people to start the debate.”
“She just didn’t like the fact that I went against her. Then I thought to myself: hmm, this is a bit strange. If you are constantly handing out, you also have to be able to take. There is hardly a celebrity who is not judged by her. Well, there are a few celebrities, namely the VI trio. They are usually spared.”
A bit like what Victor has with Hélène Hendriks, so to speak.
Weakness
Anyway: Victor is done with Tina. “Almost everyone is measured and then it is strange that if you are criticized once, you cannot accept it. I think that is a weakness. It is very strange if you cannot call a Chinese person Chinese. Then we have really drifted far as a society.”
It is an ‘overly moralistic position’, he believes. “I didn’t really see much support for this in most places. It was also not supported by other people at the VI table.”
Hypocritical person
Victor’s attack is not over yet, because he also criticizes Tina’s comments that she would never have broadcast House of Villains (RTL) and the new Ferry Doedens documentary (Prima) if she was still SBS 6 boss. Hypocritical, says TV maker Marc Dik, who points out that Tina did broadcast the raw series Teenager Mothers and Problem Districts during her time as channel boss.
In that context, Victor also points to Greetings from the Jungle. “Tina couldn’t get enough of that! This program is seen as one of the programs that have firmly confirmed those colonial stereotypes. In my opinion, someone who has brought Greetings from the Jungle to the screen season after season is not the national conscience in the field of racism.”
Moral charge
It’s time for Tina to shut up, Victor thinks. “I often see this kind of thing with Tina. Her analyzes in terms of audience figures are excellent, but lately you have seen that a lot of criticism has a moral charge. People speak from a certain morality. That is allowed, but then I will see whether that matches your past as a channel manager.”
A bit lame, but Victor is out to get Tina. “I think you have to be a little careful with being a pastor, right? I think that some restraint on a moral level is not wrong at all,” says the TV critic, who may also be a little jealous of the fact that Tina is embraced by the VI trio.
What does Tina say?
Tina is clearly shocked by the brutal attack from this fellow TV watcher. She writes on her analysis channel: “What this teaches me, such an all-out attack from Victor Vlam in his podcast: that I absolutely don’t want to look like Victor Vlam. I have always told myself that I don’t want to become a sour, angry woman.”
This is therefore an eye-opener for her. “I love viewing figures and making TV and programming. Maybe I sometimes judge people too much. I’m going to pay attention to it.”
Self-reflection
What does Tina think about her criticism of the Ferry Doedens documentary being called hypocritical? “I understand that Marc Dik and Victor Vlam, who goes all out on me in his podcast, think this is a strange opinion. But what about Greetings from the Jungle and Greetings Back? That would be impossible now the way it was then.”
“No channel orders that now. Because it is 20 years later. The iPhone did not even exist yet. A whole generation later. Times are changing. As a channel manager, I would no longer order that (just like the Ferry documentary). But perhaps it is also very hypocritical of me. And this is indeed not a credible opinion.”
That Chinese
Finally, Tina also wants to say something about the Chinese riot. “My comment about the frequent use of ‘that Chinese’ was to give a tip because it immediately became very racist towards X, among others. Not to cause a riot.”
“I also said: ‘I know those reporters didn’t mean it that way.’ Fortunately, I have received many positive reactions from the Asian community. And even a super response from the NOS itself,” she concludes.
