Angela de Jong shows her teeth to the cuddly bobos of DPG and RTL. If her boss actually takes over the RTL store, she will not be available to influence. “Look after!”
If Angela de Jong’s employer DPG soon becomes boss of RTL, the media company will of course have an interest in ensuring that the TV critic does not write too negatively about the TV channel group. After all, a negative column can cost viewers and therefore turnover. Here and there there are fears of increasing pressure on Angela; she herself sees it differently.
Angela is annoyed
In fact, Angela finds it a bit annoying that people pretend that she is just as easy to influence as the experts from Shownieuws. “I don’t know whether I should react with anger a few days later or whether I should just politely explain that it really doesn’t matter whether they are with us or not.”
She continues in the AD Media podcast: “Just for the company and I’m glad that RTL is joining us and not a competitor, but yes, guys, we have had columnists at this newspaper – Paul de Leeuw among others – who made programs that I didn’t really like. have written columns about it.”
Oliebollenbakers
Angela also took the piss out of her editor-in-chief Hans Nijenhuis. “Our previous editor-in-chief made a terrible blunder at Eva Jinek with oliebollen bakers and I was not very kind to that either.”
She continues: “I have no other choice – call it my autistic nature – than just write down what I think and that RTL coincidentally belongs to the same holding company… With the enormous company to which we also belong… I don’t have to negotiate with Peter from der Vorst about my salary, I also do not negotiate with Christian Van Thillo about my salary.”
Complaining boss?
These salary negotiations take place ‘right here at the AD’, according to Angela. “The AD has only one interest in it and that is that I write the best possible columns, because that is what the newspaper benefits most from.”
Has one of her bosses ever complained? “No not at all. Of course it’s also lame, but they also know that if I receive a friendly request from anyone within this gigantic company: ‘You should write more nicely about RTL’, then I will put it in my column at that moment and then the people will know. people also that that is my last column.”
Shareholders
But surely DPG’s shareholders can exert pressure to moderate Angela’s tone? “What do you think that editor-in-chief says? They often get an angry CEO of companies and they then keep them very far away from me. These are really separate processes.”
She concludes: “I also know that there have been a number of people here who have not been happy with the fact that I wrote something about a Lidl advertisement, because that is an important advertiser. Yes, I don’t care.”
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