RTL weatherwoman Amara Onwuka causes Mark Koster an incredible amount of annoyance. He bashes her quite hard in his column for De Telegraaf. “She has too little ability to put things into perspective.”
It is snowing in our country, everyone is in an uproar and that is why Amara Onwuka can indicate the weather on the RTL channels all day long. She was on Beau van Erven Dorens’ talk show last night, RTL Tonightand said that she had already seen all the disaster coming. Media columnist Mark Koster was also in front of the TV and was disturbed by it.
Fear mongering
Mark thinks the snow makes for ‘hysterical television full of melodrama about our First World concerns’. At such moments he says he misses the down-to-earth reporter Gerri Eickhof.
He registers The Telegraph: “At RTL Tonight they are not eligible for an Eickhof award. There was weather forecaster Amara Onwuka. She could not stop spreading fear. Beau sighed softly, but she did not allow herself to be interrupted. ‘I have not finished talking yet, Beau.’”
Too big ego
According to Mark, that woman takes herself way too seriously. “Onwuka has too little perspective to be Gerri, or too big an ego, that always mixes up with people on television.”
His podcast buddy Tina Nijkamp thinks Amara is great, she writes in her column, too The Telegraph. “She talks clearly and calmly, without hysteria. Cheerfully too, as if snow is not a problem, but a given. That works.”
Opinion
RTL Boulevard star Luuk Ikink thinks it’s a funny contrast. “Amusing. Same newspaper (Telegraaf), two completely different views on weather forecaster Amara Onwuka. So you see: an opinion is just an opinion,” he writes. Instagram.
Finally: does Angela de Jong also have an opinion about the snow? Yes, she advises in it AD om to enjoy it to the fullest. “Yes, it is difficult and you have to adjust your plans and certainly not go on the road without winter tires. But it also seems as if it touches the sharp edges of life and therefore also makes the news. And that is necessary.”