And so the granddaughter of the man who was accused of being the traitor to Anne Frank on the basis of flimsy evidence walked unsuspectingly into a TV studio, where the camera was already rolling and the smoke machine was spinning. There, out of nowhere, she saw the note that, according to the ‘cold case team’, should remove all doubt. Research leader Van Twisk later said on television that the relatives thought that his team had acted with ‘extremely honest’. In the media logicepisode of last Sunday showed that Van Twisk had not meant the next of kin. They didn’t think he was that honest at all. No, it was he himself who had found the work of his team ‘integer’.
To speak with Bassie & Adriaans Handy Harry: mistake, must be possible.
Good heavens, what a lot went wrong in that case. And leave it to the patissiers of media logic about all those mistakes – from editorial choices at this newspaper, NRC and NOS to the painful silence at the publisher of the research book, Ambo|Anthos – to bake a fine cake.
The image of those smoke machines and the unsuspecting relatives lingered for a long time.
One of the three investigators was a filmmaker, he had filmed the investigation from the very beginning for what was eventually to become a documentary series. The suggestion that the unmasking of the traitor was not the outcome of solid historical research, but rather the necessary punch line of a true crime series around ‘the Anne Frank brand’ shook through the audience. media logicepisode.
It takes a while for the potential magnitude of such a message to fully sink in. Which local world newsmakers have also been silently producing their own multi-part Netflix binge cannon for years? Last week it was announced that the film rights of the Sywert case have been sold, but what happens when it turns out that the Hosselaar Laureate itself has been preparing a reality series for Amazon Prime for years: To not† Those mouth caps suddenly turn out to be part of a pre-written plot.
if you go with that media logic-looks at the news, you see one top series after another rising from the ashes of daily current affairs. For example, it may just happen that the Farmers Defense Force foreman will soon surprise us with a shambles of a Netflix special. Only question is whether it will be ranked under ‘Provocative Comedians’, ‘Crime Based on True Facts’ or under ‘Because you Front yards of Ministers have looked’.
Personally, I am most looking forward to the thrilling Videoland series by and about Daniel Koerhuis, in which he and CDA member Julius Terpstra (who later becomes active for project developer Heijmans, but of course, nice plot twist) tirelessly advocate for building building in four Dutch polders. Then, in June 2022, when Investico research shows that a large part of those areas are in the hands of a few influential property developers, whose property will increase in value several times as politics turns agricultural land into building land, everything seems to go awry. . But the housing crisis continues and the word ‘integer’ is mentioned and soon nobody remembers who said that about whom: building building building can just begin and unsuspecting opponents are one day invited to walk between smoke machines and rotating cameras. to lay the first stone.
Working title: Brutals have half the world†