Hélène Hendriks feels that Harm Edens’ criticism of her colleagues from Today Inside is seriously unfounded. “I’m sure he’s never seen an episode.”
The progressive TV maker Harm Edens has lashed out very hard at Today Inside. He compares the SBS 6 talk show in his podcast to a kind of gut sewer. “Apparently 1.1 million people in the lower regions enjoy looking at a sewer,” grumbles the NPO maker. “It’s not for me either.”
Annoyed by Harm
Johan Derksen finds it easy to criticize Harm. “Yes, that Harm Edens, that annoyed me too! To all the people who are now watching us, I would like to say one thing on behalf of Harm, with a lot of disdain, namely that they belong to the underbelly legion and that they are watching a reprehensible program.”
He continues: “Then I think: Harm Edens… ‘Because progressive Netherlands don’t like this…’ Well, I won’t be concerned about what progressive Netherlands thinks.”
Underbelly sewer
Harm’s criticism has little effect on the presenter of the whole thing, Wilfred Genee. “Underbelly sewer. And it shouldn’t be possible for this to be broadcast. Do you think so too, Hélène?”
Johan jokes: “Hélène just takes the money!”
René van der Gijp: “Of course things are sometimes said about which I sometimes have my doubts, but yes. Then I often say them myself!”
A bit cheap
In principle, Hélène does not have much trouble with it. “He’s allowed to think so, right?”
Johan: “Yes, he may think so, but I think it’s a bit cheap.”
Wilfred: “Yes, but of course we are too.”
Johan: “No, we are not cheap, we are straight forward. I’m not sitting in front of the stage trying to be good.”
Never seen
Hélène does think that Harm’s criticism is unfounded. “You know what I think, Wilfred? For example, Harm Edens… If he says something like that, I’m almost certain he has never watched an episode in its entirety.”
She continues: “I think that such an opinion is often based on some fragments that have sometimes been taken out of context or sometimes not at all, but then you base your opinion on such a fragment, but I don’t think he spent five days watching for an hour a week. No, I don’t think so.”
Johan concludes: “It’s a bit like preaching to your own parish.”