Just before the weekend, Angela de Jong feared for her job at the AD, but the newspaper took heart: the opinion diva can stay. What remains is scorn. “What a hat!”, it sounds.
For a moment it seemed that Angela de Jong would still have to fall into the arms of John de Mol today, whose offer for her own program she previously refused. Fortunately, she is spared that defeat, because the opinion diva is allowed to stay with the AD. She feared she would be fired on Friday, but was allowed to submit another piece today.
Bribed
What is this all about? Angela wrote one on Friday piece for the newspaper with a clickbait headline that would go too far even for this site: ‘The question is whether I will still have a job on Monday after this column.’
Columnist Jan Dijkgraaf, also known as a biographer of the Meilandjes, was shocked and decided to read her column immediately. “I thought: he will come with documents showing who DPG has bribed the merger watchdog ACM for how much to be allowed to ‘merge’ with RTL,” he writes in his Note for Jan.
Standing foot
And so Jan lists a number of examples that were running through his mind. “Yes, I had no idea how you were going to get yourself fired with one column! (…) My old journalist’s heart beat with anticipation. Well, that was a little bit of a disappointment, Angela.”
Because what was the reason that Angela feared being fired? “You write in your column that you did not go to the AD’s Christmas party on Thursday (shame!) and that you are annoyed by the fact that colleagues who did go posted photos of the Christmas drinks in WhatsApp groups (double-shame!).”
Hat
What an irritating piece of clickbait, Jan thinks. “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t call women ‘mutt’, because then people will complain about ‘the tone’. But in this case I really can’t think of a better word, kitty.”
Angela has been under fire for some time because her new columns – she is suddenly no longer a TV columnist since her employer DPG took over the TV channels from RTL – are rather of a house, garden and kitchen level.
Or, as Jan calls it: “Nice and cozy.”