Hélène Hendriks had an extremely vulnerable guest at her talk show table yesterday in HLF8, namely the sister of the murdered Gino (9). She sat at the table trembling and crying.
Angela de Jong sat in front of the TV and got an extremely uncomfortable feeling about it. She points out that Kelly, the sister of the murdered 9-year-old boy Gino, had first seen her brother’s killer just hours before the broadcast. Their mother had to be removed from the courtroom because of high emotions deleted.
Trembling and crying
Kelly was also deeply emotional, but in the evening she sat at the talk show table of HLF8 to be subjected to an emo interview by Hélène Hendriks. She sat in the studio trembling and crying.
Inappropriate, Angela thinks it is. “Especially when an overzealous Hart van Nederland reporter began to meticulously list the gruesome suspicions against Donny M.,” she writes in her letter. AD column.
‘This is not possible’
Angela thinks that Hélène and HLF8 should have given up on this, despite the fact that they had roped in a nice news guest on paper. “Was there no one at HLF8 who thought: we shouldn’t do this?”
It may be ‘a dream guest’ for a talk show ‘with first-hand emotions, with which they trumped all competitors in one fell swoop’, says Angela, but: ‘Can you expect people in such a state to realize where say ‘yes’ to them?”
Vulnerable guests
Hélène should have vetoed her, Angela thinks. “Do you have to do this to the viewer? Then it comes down to the conscience of program makers to protect vulnerable guests from themselves.”
And that is, at least with Hélène and her colleagues, ‘not always well developed’, according to Angela.
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