Jeroen Pauw incurs quite a bit of anger with a question he posed in Khalid & Sophie to Sigrid Kaag, the leader of D66. “He served the Jack van Gelder!”
D66 leader Sigrid Kaag was met by a few dozen demonstrators over the weekend when she arrived in a Twente village to participate in a debate. A number of protesters did burning torches with him and as a result, according to the minister, there was an ‘atmosphere of intimidation and insecurity’.
Jeroen and Sigrid
Jeroen Pauw sat opposite Sigrid in the talk show last night Khalid & Sophia and asked the minister: “There is, of course, increasing dissatisfaction in society. Do you sometimes think: maybe it’s just me? You know, maybe I’m part of a government that disappoints these people so much?”
That question led to misunderstanding among politicians. “The government and politicians can disappoint. We should always ask ourselves what we can do differently and better, but I find this question too easy and of the upside down world these days. I am not going to explain why people are standing there with torches.”
Torch rig
Journalist Henk Spaan thinks it’s insane. “Jeroen Pauw briefly became Jack van Gelder’s service when he asked Sigrid Kaag if it wasn’t actually her own fault, that torch and all that. And that Wilders was also very pathetic. Oh, Jeroen, I thought. Don’t grab beyond your power. He did,” he tweeted.
Kees Verhoeven, former member of parliament of D66, does not understand it. “Jeroen Pauw also asked the wrong question whether the intimidation towards Sigrid Kaag could also be due to herself. This reversal of the situation is really problematic. Because there is never an excuse for harassment by holding torches close to someone.”
scandalous
Volkskrant columnist Sander Schimmelpenninck thinks that Jeroen is seriously overreacting. “It’s a shame that Jeroen Pauw asks whether intimidation and threats could be caused by Kaag himself. Raunchy victim blaming and baffling that someone who knows or should know the dynamics and dangers of social media would ask such a question.”
Writer John Swelsen: “Jeroen Pauw has always had a thing for being forcedly objective and lacking any moral compass.”
And NOS presenter Chris Kijne: “It is a somewhat more general journalistic disorder: asking the supposedly uncomfortable question and no longer realizing where the discomfort is.”
‘Nail on the head!’
Jeroen also receives support from some. “Nail on the head! This would have been Kaag’s chance to show that she is capable of self-reflection. Missed opportunity. What else?” tweets one Lena.
Sonja: “There is still room for critical journalism at the NPO. Long live Jeroen Pauw, hooray.”
And Marja: ′′ More more more more Jeroen Pauw ??. Like a fan of his. ?”
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Sigrid in Khalid & Sophie:
