The investigation into the abuses at The world goes on and broadcaster BNNVARA will be expanded to include the entire public broadcaster. After reporting about the transgressive behavior on the editorial board of DWDD several reports have been received at the Mores hotline for undesirable behavior in the cultural sector. These concerned similar cases from ‘the breadth of public broadcasting’. The NPO requests the Commission of Inquiry to take a broader view than DWDD and BNNVARA.
The investigative committee will be assisted by two advisers, including someone from the Mores hotline. The first part of the research will have to focus on the systematic causes of transgressive behaviour. This includes looking at, for example, the competitive environment and the effect of temporary contracts and working with freelancers. The aim is to come up with concrete recommendations for the future. The second part of the study examines the form in which transgressive behavior took place, what signals there were and what happened to it.
The outcome of the study is expected in the first half of 2023. The investigation was launched after DWDD and presenter Matthijs van Nieuwkerk were discredited last week after an article by de Volkskrant. This showed that both the presenter and several editors-in-chief have caused an unsafe working atmosphere at the program for years. There would have been ‘structural transgressive behaviour’. BNNVARA received various signals about this, but decided not to intervene.
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