Albert Verlinde believes that his RTL colleagues from Editie NL have behaved scandalously. He accuses them of misplaced pursuit of effect. “Martijn Krabbé? It just makes me feel sick!”
It was one yesterday hot item in almost all current programs: the increase in messages on Facebook in which famous Dutch people are declared dead. The purpose of that fake news? Hoping that people will click on it so that its distributors can make money with advertisements. Countless celebrities are victims of these practices.
Distasteful
From Wilbert Gieske to Hélène Hendriks and from Douwe Bob to Henny Huisman: they all suffer from it. Media that report on this therefore have plenty of celebrities to choose from when they are looking for images. That is precisely why Albert Verlinde, regular interpreter of RTL Tonight, is so angry with the colleagues of Editie NL.
Albert is really pissed. “I have to say… They are colleagues, but today I saw Editie NL. I don’t know if you saw it, but they also had a topic about this and it started – I just found it distasteful to look at such a Wilbert Gieske advertisement – with ‘Martijn Krabbé has passed away’,” he snorts. RTL Tonight.
Unethical
The people at Editie NL should think about this carefully, Albert thinks. “Then I think: yes, no one has the ethics to think: let’s not show it on screen.”
Host Humberto Tan: “Just don’t do that, no.”
Albert concludes: “It’s a disgusting situation anyway, but I thought that… It just made me feel a bit sick.”
