The third eye arrived in a HEMA bag. “From your favorite store,” said the friend who had brought the bag for Claudia. She didn’t need to say more. Experienced last minuteGift buyers took one look from behind the TV at the cardboard bag with shiny purple dots and automatically heard the HEMA jingle playing in their heads.
Grinning, Claudia, who runs a B&B in Austria and provides Jungian therapy sessions, fished a sticker sheet with sticky gemstones from the gift bag. “You can also seduce your men with this,” the friend suggested. Claudia nodded happily. “Maybe I’ll put a bindi on them right away.” She picked open the plastic packaging with her nails, each of which she had painted a different color, and let her two love candidates choose a sticker to stick on their foreheads, between their eyebrows. Hans got a green one, Raoul a blue one. And let’s hope that cosmic consciousness would soon follow.
Claudia could also use some divine insight herself, because choosing between two men is not that easy. In Winter full of love (RTL4) showed on Thursday how Hans made his entrance into her B&B and immediately made quite an impression, with the medium-length silver locks through which he regularly ran his hand. Such a mysterious one silverfox Claudia hadn’t come over yet.
In the meantime, Raoul had been happily strolling through her house for a few days, and she also appreciated his cheerfulness. He radiated something familiar and loyal, while Hans could tell you in his deep, scratchy voice that he lived “not so by the book.” “I can skip ahead,” said Hans. “I can turn back. I can close the book and look at the outside. I can… look at the outside very well.” It remained a guess for Claudia what exactly he wanted to say with that, but she found it intriguing. Sometimes the unknown beckons.
Opinion of the day
This also applies to presenter Malou Petter, who started a new presentation job more than a year ago. After working at the NOS for more than thirteen years, she felt it was time for something different. Otherwise, the new job turned out to be certain, although that was Petter’s only expectation that was fulfilled when she took the plunge to SBS6. News of the day to present (a collaboration between Talpa and The Telegraph). Within eight months she resigned. Bee Eva (AVROTROS) Petter looked back on her short-lived SBS adventure on Thursday evening.
News of the day had become a different program than Petter had been told in advance, Petter said now. She joined with the idea of making a current affairs program for a broad audience. There would also be opinion contributions “occasionally”, she knew that in advance, but the emphasis would be on the news. In practice, however, opinion became an increasingly important part of the format, Petter saw. And although she believed that “an opinion is allowed,” she had difficulty with the lack of context given to those opinions. Such was an acquaintance Telegraphcolumnist and professionally angry man believes that all traditional media in the Netherlands function as a conduit for Hamas. Then you miss just that little bit of context.
(The same columnist was present again on Thursday News of the daybut his contributions are now virtually redundant. Now presenter Thomas van Groningen simply says things like: “The question is whether a white police officer of Dutch descent can still arrest someone wearing a veil.”)
In a response, Talpa had said that it would create “a conscientious journalistic program” “in which there is room for opinion. We do this according to journalistic standards.” “What do you think when you hear that?” Eva Jinek asked Petter. “Well, yes,” the latter sighed. “That those standards can be different for everyone.” She herself returns to the public broadcaster, where she will be seen from February as a presenter of the AVROTROS program EenToday. In the video in which she announces her new job, she mentions previous programs that you may know her from – News of the day doesn’t mention them. She refers to it as: Talpa. Like a vague acquaintance.
The journalistic principles of NRC
