Angela de Jong thinks it is very weak that Arjen Lubach chose the transfer Eva Jinek for the interview. Very easy-going, according to the AD Opiniediva. “A random promotional story!”
Arjen Lubach had already said some things on the radio about his transfer to RTL 4, but on television we only saw him talking about it this week. He was sitting at the table with Eva Jinek, of whom he received a strong hug prior to the conversation. What followed was not very interesting: the presenter was allowed to hold an obligatory PR story.
No tension
Eva himself also switched to the commercials a few years ago, just like Arjen now. The presenter also referred to this, to tackle any hypocris resilgiams at the front. “But it also immediately got all the tension from the conversation,” writes Angela de Jong in her AD Column.
It all became very sweet, she thinks. “I think that as a talk show host you have a duty to make more of it than any promotional story. Especially if your name is Eva Jinek and your guest Arjen Lubach is.”
Defeat
Angela thinks it is a shame that Arjen opts for the money. “Such a socially committed program maker who has been reading his viewers for years about the problems in the world, climate and all kinds of reprehensible boomer behavior, which has now sold his soul to RTL 4.”
That he chose Eva? She thinks it’s cowardly. According to Angela, he chose ‘very smart’ for that. “The interview became (…) more a game” dancing around the hot mush “than a critical interview.”
Very sad
Eva ran away from RTL 4, so, according to Angela, she could have throw something personal in the fight to turn the conversation into something interesting.
In any case, there was plenty to ask, according to the AD star. “What happened that he has brought out on the public broadcaster? Or is it really just about more money? I would find that so incredibly sad.”