Angela de Jong suddenly withdraws as a TV columnist. Does the opinion diva really withdraw completely as the criticaster of the media world? Does she also stop her own Mediapodcast?
For many people it still came unexpectedly: Angela de Jong’s departure as a TV columnist. She now becomes a general columnist on page two and, for example, also goes a lot about writing in that role. Does this mean that we really lose her as the woman who fillets well -known Dutch people and their programs? Or does she retain her podcast?
Until the end of year
Angela remains despite the fact that she stops as a TV columnist with the AD Media Podcast. “I am not here for the last time,” she says in that podcast. “I’m going to stop writing on television alone. My column gets a somewhat wider character, but I keep doing the Mediapodcast as a hobby for a while.”
Colleague Gudo Tienhooven a little later: “You will continue with this podcast until the end of the year.”
End of the era
If she leaves the podcast, then that is really the end of an era, many think. Angela then: “Yes, this is how more people get it and I think that is quite an honor on the one hand, but on the other I think: people, I will be there again in a few weeks.”
She continues: “I am not leaving and I will continue to write about television here and there if I think it is necessary, but there are more topics that I think I can make a difference for the newspaper.”
Page two
How long does Angela know that she will stop as a TV columnist? “We already agreed this at the end of last year, last October to be precise, with each other. Also with the newspaper.”
After the summer she starts her new job. “A column on page two of the newspaper. Actually, I just keep the same rhythm as what I have now. I tap my column in the morning, he comes online at 12 o’clock and it is about everything that concerns me. Those are not the worries of my children. All about topicality.”
André and Gordon
According to Angela, there is no extremely much changing. “Actually, I just want what I am doing now. I also often try to take the conversation of the day in my column. Then I always have to add something about TV and that is no longer forced.”
Colleague Marcus den Blanken: “So if the conversation of the day is André Hazes or Gordon, could that still be possible?”
Angela: “Yes, but then you are very high in the importance of Gordon, I am afraid. No, but that could. (…) Yes. Look, you know, however you turn it around: media, television, keep my great love. So he will always sneak in a few times.”