Rob Goossens strongly criticizes his own program RTL Boulevard. He thinks it is a great shame that such a large stage is offered to the Postcode Lottery in the show section.
RTL Boulevard ended the broadcast yesterday with a minute-long item about the presentation of a Postcode Lottery prize. It was a shameless commercial disguised as an editorial. Host Frank Dane: “Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come: the Netherlands has gained a few millionaires again. And Caroline Tensen has the great honor of telling them that.”
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The voice-over on duty, Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte, was completely in a jubilant atmosphere. “Starting your day with a bag full of money is of course not wrong. Henk and Ciska feel in any case the king too rich with this amount. (…) The roguish duo Quinty and Caroline would not want to miss these kinds of moments for anything.”
The ladies were then allowed to say how much they love advertising the lottery. They call it ‘being an ambassador’. Caroline Tensen: “It is really the best part of being an ambassador for the Postcode Lottery.” And Quinty Trustfull: “It never gets boring, making people happy with these kinds of prizes.”
Inval-Ikink Lex Expression after the item: “Delicious, isn’t it? Unbelievable!”
‘Stop this!’
Rob Goossens finds these kinds of promotions from the Postcode Lottery really unbelievable. “The flag will be raised on the day the media stops promoting the largest blackmail operation in the world: the Postcode Lottery. People buy lottery tickets there because they are afraid that the neighbors will win, not because they want to,” he wrote this afternoon. Twitter†
According to Rob, it affects poor people with fear of being left out. “If it’s people who can do without it, I think it’s fine. Everyone has his hobby. But when the main prize fell in the Bijlmer, we saw how it really happened: creditors were the big winner. Then you know: those people actually had no money for those tickets.”
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The current situation is not sustainable, believes Rob, who is the TV expert of RTL Boulevard. He wants a ban on the use of postcodes as lottery numbers, so that people are no longer afraid to cancel lottery tickets.
Rob: “The random lottery numbers of other lotteries are therefore also a form of self-protection: you don’t know whether you would have won if you had participated and that is so peaceful.”
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Rob’s angry tweet: