Angela de Jong writes a television column for the AD site every day and if there is a spicy headline above it, it usually has a lot of impact. How does she cope with it all?
It’s not easy for Angela de Jong either: she has to write a piece for the AD site every day, but these are actually only fun if she goes all out on some celebrity. Yet she cannot do that every day, because then people say that she is only negative. So there are quite a few parts that are a bit boring.
School schedule
Angela has to find a balance and that is not always easy. Moreover, she has to watch everything on television every day. How does she keep up with all that? Keeping the school schedule, she says. And she also recommends that to the men of Today Inside…
She says in the AD Media Podcast: “Of course they are now making a lot of progress until Christmas and then they will be free for quite some time, about four weeks or so, but I think it is more convenient to stick to that school schedule. I always do that myself. Just a week of autumn break, then you have two weeks off for Christmas and then again in the spring.”
Some air
Everything is manageable with the school schedule, says Angela. “That gives you a bit of relief every now and then, so you don’t have to be completely bored with each other after four months.”
Colleague Manuel Venderbos: “Otherwise you will have to put the schedule together.”
Angela: “I can send them a blueprint like that. Seems very useful to me. But it is actually strange, because Pauw & Witteman, Humberto, Matthijs… They have just done it for years and we thought it was very normal that they were on television here every evening.”
Column every day
Media journalist Dennis Jansen thinks it is an achievement. “I don’t think it’s normal, but these people you mention here have done it very well.”
Angela: “No, but we thought that was very normal at the time. Now we know that it didn’t work out very well for Matthijs.”
Dennis: “But you have to write a column every day. That also puts a certain pressure.”
Angela: “Definitely.”
‘You’re on’
Dennis thinks that Angela is also having a hard time. “Every day. You have to write a column every day and then not at the weekend, but then you also have to make sure that you have seen things, so then you are also on. You’ll be free on Friday evening, so to speak.”
Angela: “Yes, but then you also have to go to a talk show sometimes, so that’s not always…”
Dennis: “No, so you’re actually always on all week.”
Blow out
It is easy to keep up with that school schedule, says Angela. “But that is why, and this also applies to them, it is very useful that after a week or… Because that is often a schedule of about eight weeks… That you can then take a breather.”
Dennis: “It’s not surprising at all. It’s not a big deal at all.”
Angela: “And I think it would also be nice for Wilfred’s family, because then he can simply join his family in the holiday schedule. I think that is more useful than four weeks at Christmas and New Year’s Eve.”