Angela de Jong responds to Heleen van Royen’s spicy sneer at her address. She delicately points out that the writer was second choice at Today Inside on Monday. “Maybe the fourth.”
Angela de Jong would actually be a guest on Monday evening in the first episode of Today Inside since the candle exit, but she canceled because she wanted to write a column about the program. That’s why Heleen van Royen was in her place, who just hates Angela. She gave out a spicy sneer at the end of the broadcast.
Helen berates Angela
According to Heleen, Angela spends too much time on television and that is incompatible with her work as a TV critic. “She was constantly yelling that you were ‘falling into your own knife’, but if anyone falls into her own knife, it’s Angela de Jong.”
Where does Angela think this is coming from? “Well, I think you gave a very good analysis. That she didn’t like it very much that she was put away on TV as a second, third, fourth or fifth choice. We don’t know,” she responds in the AD Media podcast† “At least I know she wasn’t the first choice.”
Shrug
Angela does not want to waste too many words on Heleen, whose son works on the editorial board of VI. “Yeah, you know: I’ve been getting very tired of all those people who keep responding and doing to each other for years. Let him have that comment with her, shrug your shoulders. Let it go, Gijp would say, and a person should just do that a little more often.”
Incidentally, according to Angela, it is not true that she would be a TV critic. “I’m a TV columnist, but I’m not really attached to that name. Whether I’m a TV critic or TV columnist. (…) In my experience, TV critics only write about programs and I also write about developments in TV land or comment on decisions that are made.”
Columnist or reviewer
Colleague Marcus den Blanken: “I think that makes the difference. If you had been a TV reviewer and you had been on all those programs, you wouldn’t have been able to review them, but being a columnist means you write about programs and sometimes you just don’t write a review but about something that’s happening. However?”
Angela: “Yes, but I think that’s a very semantic explanation. But if I did call myself a TV critic, I’d still be sitting wherever I am.”
