Joris Luyendijk is deeply disappointed in the VPRO. He feels cheated after the Buitenhof broadcast a month ago, in which he was dealt with pretty hard by two guests at the table.
Presenter Twan Huys received Joris Luyendijk in Buitenhof a month ago to talk about his book De Zeven Vinkjes. In it, he explores the rule of men like himself. Men who have everything with them, in other words men with the seven ticks that he names in his book. They would often unjustly end up in high positions.
Awful
Joris was dealt with quite hard at the Buitenhof table by host Twan Huys and the other guests at the table, namely Sylvana Simons and Neelie Kroes. For example, Neelie was quite annoyed because Joris claims in his book that she would have learned her distinguished accent. She more or less forced him to apologize on live television. He made that too.
It was a terrible experience, Joris now says in The Friday Move† “I was confronted with two people who had not read the book and who repeated criticism from others who had not read the book either, while I thought I could go there and tell what I had come up with there in 2.5 years together. That was really horrible, yes.”
Raids
In retrospect, his statement about Neelie is correct, according to Joris. “Yes, but they had chosen to surprise me with that. That really wasn’t fun. (…) Although you could also say that I should still have checked that with her. I think I must have made a mistake somewhere.”
Joris really liked the Buitenhof performance. “What I found very intense: if you work on a book for 2.5 years, do a lot of research and try to make it accessible so that everyone can at least read it, and then you get 40 seconds to tell and then deposit they criticize you… Then as an author you no longer have the chance to tell what you have chosen.”
Disappointed
It particularly annoys Joris that the VPRO is doing this to him. “That that was at the VPRO, with whom I had seven Tegenlicht broadcasts and two seasons of Zomergasten and Wintergasten, and they not only threw me in front of the bus, but drove the bus themselves and then didn’t hear anything anymore… I thought that was very intense. ”
Buitenhof did this deliberately, according to Joris. “Oh, they knew exactly what they were doing. They thought: we’re going to score on Twitter.”
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A snippet from then: