Katja Schuurman does not think it is a good thing that the Today Inside program has disappeared from the tube so abruptly. She believes that the multiformity of the media landscape should be monitored.
Johan Derksen’s candle blunder meant the abrupt end of Today Inside this week. Intense, thinks Helga van Leur. She thinks this will only make it more difficult to repent in the public domain, as Johan tried. “Now you’re crazy if you say anything at all,” she says in the Op1 last night.
fear of talking
Op1 presenter Welmoed Sijtsma also notices the reluctance of guests to express their opinion about this. “Katja, I also understood that a bit in the preparation of the editor that you say: ‘I hardly dare to say anything about this, because before you know it your head is off somewhere.’”
Frédérique Spigt, who is sitting at the table with Katja to promote a podcast, says: “In fact, she can’t say anything about it from me. We agreed that we would only advertise our podcast.”
Katja critical
Welmoed: “Why is it so complicated?”
Katja: “You know that exactly. If you say something it becomes…”
Welmoed: “Isn’t it bizarre that we have reached this stage that we don’t dare to say anything more about it?”
Katja: “I am very sorry that there is no longer the possibility and space for all kinds of crazy sounds. Even when I think of Theo van Gogh. Sometimes you also need people who kick and then you can relate to that again. That doesn’t mean you have to agree, but I think it’s important that people… Otherwise we’re all going to be terrified.”
sorry circus
Op1 host Jort Kelder is annoyed by the sorry circus in the Netherlands. “Tina (Nijkamp, ed.), in all honesty: that whole circus in the Netherlands where everyone has to make excuses for everything all the time, isn’t that a bit hypocritical?”
In any case, Johan thinks so and that’s why he didn’t do it. He had to pay for that at the end of his career. Frédérique: “That then you have to get your head off and everyone goes along with it! It’s completely… The trend is changing.”
Katja: “The unfortunate thing is that it has been taken out of context in the sense that I think he wants to show something. It was about Johnny and wanted to show: we all do crazy things sometimes. I don’t support him at all, but I do think it’s important that we just get to… We’re all on our toes now, all the time.”
Accountant
Eva Jinek, who previously suggested an advertiser boycott of VI, says in her talk show: “Arno Kantelberg sat here at the table this week and said: ‘If we continue like this, we will soon be left with no program or presenter.'”
Table guest Özcan Akyol: “Then every presenter is a boring accountant who just neatly reads his autocue.”
Özcan was often credited with his performances at VI. “When I walk through the market in Deventer, you see completely different people who watch that program: the greengrocer, the postman. They say: ‘Look, that Op1 and stuff, and that terrible Jinek…’ You know what I mean. (…) They no longer have a mouthpiece.”
Fragment
Katja about the VI exit:
