Angela de Jong is quite shocked by the criticism of her drop veter column and afterwards she changed the helm considerably, says TV critic Victor Vlam. “She was no longer with the most read pieces!”
The TV season has erupted again, but it is all different than usual, because Angela de Jong is no longer there. All those years we were used to the opinion diva of the AD that went completely loose on the national TV stars, but in her first week as a general columnist she shocked with all kinds of blood sowing columns, including over drop laces.
Drop -iron
Today’s men inside were shocked. Drop laces? They find that too boring matter. “It was about things such as children’s treats, drop laces or her hatred for dogs. Yes, I must honestly tell you: I did agree with the criticism. I thought it was a bit troubled,” says TV critic Victor Vlam.
He continues in the podcast Victor explains TV: “Well, out of curiosity since the first day of that column, I have kept track of or that is between the most read pieces on AD.nl. A top five is published on the front page that is refreshed several times a day and it is the only way to measure whether it is a bit of a success.”
‘Really disastrous’
And? How does the Angela 2.0 score? “Her TV column almost always stood among the most read articles and sometimes even twice, with the column of today and yesterday. What is the case from this analysis? Well, indeed, that they are a bit right at VI, at least in the eyes of many AD readers, because the first week was really disastrous for the column.”
Victor continues: “The first column was in between, probably many people were curious, but the rest of the week was not in between, while she was in a talk show twice to talk about her column, namely Pauw & De Wit and RTL Tonight. That did not lead to that column went through the roof.”
Allowance parents
Angela did a lot better last week, says Victor. “Remarkably, after VI’s criticism, columns were suddenly published that were really very well read and always stood between the best read pieces on AD.nl.”
For example, she wrote a much -discussed column about the mortgage interest rate, in which she made a very strange comparison with the allowance parents. “Of course that didn’t matter at all and that also led to a lot of fuss.”
Exaggerated
Angela’s comparison was ‘totally exaggerated’, says Victor. “It is funny, because of course I see why she is doing it: it is an attempt to be controversial.”
But, he concludes: “It appears to score better than a column about children’s treats. It is less fussy.”