The time of carefree is over for Viktor Brand. For a long time he managed to get away with the unsavory practices of his program, but that is now over. “Utensils!”
It seems that the program Mr. Frank Visser is now making a pronunciation a bit up to his end, especially in view of Frank Visser’s age of 73. For the television judge it will be a sausage what the current controversy does with his image, but his 54-year-old colleague Viktor Brand has to come in the media world and has more to lose.
Vocationalist
The general tenor is now that Viktor is a professional dock and that he abuses ordinary people for ordinary TV amusement. How does TV psychologist Saskia van Houten look at it? She thinks people should be warned about the questionable practices of Viktor and his team.
“People do not realize that they are a utensil in this program,” explains Saskia in New Revu. “SBS is a commercial broadcaster and benefits from many viewers, because then the advertisements are higher.”
More radical television
Why does Viktor seem to go further and further in increasing socially awkward people? “Higher viewing figures are achieved by more radical television. In order not to give the viewer the feeling that they have seen something like that, it must always be a step more and more. We get used to things, that is called hab situation in psychology.”
And according to her, the TV makers are conveniently responding to that. “You have to be presented with something more violent in order to be able to get the same sensation feeling. And of course there is nothing better than looking at people with whom things are going bad. It’s just in people to want to look at the suffering of others.”
Reconsideration
In the meantime, Mr. Frank Visser makes a pronunciation but to be discredited, including this week. The 78-year-old Alfons can be seen as a participant of the new season and goes to the Council for Journalism. The TV makers have taken out a nauseous region by him by simply raising him as the plaintiff instead of the defendant, reports it Ad.
The producer has turned everything around so that he gets hate messages, says Alfons. SBS 6 already felt Ad in the neck panting and decided at his request to immediately remove fragments from the internet. “I am threatened and called for a thick, dirty whining that old people wants to take their pleasure with a strange requirement.”
Crying for days
What do those practices of Viktor Brand do with such an old 78-year-old man and his wife? “My partner, an elderly woman, and I’ve been crying for days. I am not at all.”
Victim lawyer Sébas Diekstra calls changing the position of participants without consultation ‘misleading and unacceptable’. “If a different approach is necessary for the broadcast, it must be discussed and approved in advance.”