Presenter Malou Petter stops News of the day (SBS). She said she could not agree with the “current course”. Could it be the peppery, monotonous opinions of the pronounced opinion makers at the table? Think it. Anyway, it is admirable to step up, and at the same time it is a pity. Petter, who switched from the NOS to Talpa last year, dared to reply to her guests. With her departure, that will be an even rarer phenomenon than it already is. Bee News of the day They briefly talked about it: there too they thought it was brave that Petter stops.
Not that disagreement is a criterion for a healthy debate, but nuance is a French loan word and comes from Nuer: applying shadow. This requires critical journalists who are not in the middle between two positions, but who see a cloud in the sky, even if it is presented as clear blue.
In that context, the most interesting conversation of the day around the strange time of two o’clock in the afternoon took place. The wildly popular Incredible podcast (EO) has also been seen on NPO 2 for a few months. While there were many debates without shadows on Primetime, the conversation between presenter David Boogerd, theologian Stefan Paas and historian Jan van Benthem was a conversation in which no one pronounced, but everyone had something to say. That seems negative, but is a relief. Easter said that he had used the summer vacation to read books to arm himself against dehumanization. The question he asked “How do you prevent you from dehumanizing the other?” Seems to me the big question of this time. Because according to Van Benthem, it has been thinking that the Palestinian citizen is a beast, since 7 October ‘deep into thinking with many people, and certainly in the government [van Israël]”.
Yesterday, the day after journalist Anas Al-Sharif and three colleagues from El Jazeera were killed by the IDF in a targeted attack. The counter is now on (at least) 186 killed Palestinian journalists. Trying to justify that is indeed only possible if you are convinced that you are no longer dealing with people. Journalists show man.
Wonderful gift
In the candid and yet critical NPO DOC Jan Brokken are war (Max), from director Nathalie Toisuta, writer Jan Brokken is going to Makassar for the first time in Indonesia, the country where his parents settled as missionaries in the 1930s. Brokken frankly tells how he grew up as an outsider because he was the only child of the family born after the war, and had not been in a Japanese camp. “The shadow that pulled this period extended to long after the war. And I too came to be in that shade. Because how do you live with a history that determines you, but that you are not a part of?” Brokken was only able to write about the camp history of his parents and brothers after their death. He could not have made this trip and documentary during their lives. It would ripe old wounds. Now that he is alone, he does it anyway.
As Jan Brokken writes, he speaks, with that wonderful gift to sketch a portrait of a life in a few anecdotal sentences. In this case of his brothers, who were one and a half and three years old when they were locked up in the camp. The youngest slept with his mother at the bottom of the bunk bed, the oldest at the top, under the canopy from which the cockroaches fell. Both were terrified, but because the youngest was allowed to go to bed with mother, and not the oldest, that “friction,” and “that only grew up later.” A few sentences, and yet an image of a lifetime. Like a journalist.