Khalid Kasem gets a big slap on the wrist because of the ‘panting’ item in his talk show Khalid & Sophie about the train collision in Voorschoten. “Did you see the people crawling out?”
It was big news yesterday morning: the major train accident in Voorschoten. There is one death to regret and about thirty people were injured. There was plenty of attention for it in evening programs on television and the talk show Khalid & Sophie also had a long item about it. This time the presentation was in the hands of Khalid Kasem.
“Did you see them get out?”
Khalid sat at a table with people who were on site. He asked rather sensational questions, such as: “Daan, you are a 112 photographer. You were on the scene very quickly, weren’t you?”
When this photographer points out that it was intense, Khalid asks: “The fierceness was in the nature of the injury or the devastation or the shock of the people?”
To another: “Did you see those people getting out like this or were you a bit too late for that?”
“Did they crawl?”
At one point Khalid wants to know from a guest how the victims crawled out of the train. “I can imagine… We just saw some of that panic. Will people come then… Because there were also quite a few seriously injured people, one person died. Will people crawl out of those trains? What do you see when you get there?”
And about victims who approached local residents: “What was wrong with them?”
Disaster tourism
NPO 1 viewers react critically. This is how Geronimo says: “Disaster tourism at Khalid & Sophie. Is this newsgathering or sensationalizing? 🤔”
Klaas: “What a thrill seeker that Khalid is.”
Yellow: “Why must the train accident be discussed in detail? What is the added value of this? Sensational?”
And Joop: “Khalid & Sophie is starting to look a bit like sensational TV. In my experience, Khalid has been waiting in his dreams for a disaster of this caliber and that it was his turn to present.”
Angela critical
Angela de Jong is also extremely critical. ‘I didn’t want to know the answer to the questions of this gasping talk show host,’ reads her headline AD column.
She writes that she is moved by the stories of aid workers. “Many other things I prefer to forget as quickly as possible. Like that one panting talk show host who kept pining for the gory details at 7 p.m. I can’t imagine I was the only one who didn’t want to hear the answers to those questions.”
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An excerpt from Khalid & Sophie: