Winston Gerschtanowitz is tough, and from all sides, tackled in the talk show of Eva Jinek. He kept emphasizing that he is a person of integrity and that he is not Sywert van Lienden.
The Quote has pretty much exposed Winston Gerschtanowitz and his friends. The presenter pretends he wants to save nature, but his ‘charity’ EarthToday in reality turns out to be a potential profit machine with which the founders can earn billions. And keep insisting that it is all about the earth.
Eva critical
Eva Jinek gave Winston a huge twist on her talk show yesterday. She resents that he used Jan Terlouw last year to convince the viewers of sister talk show Beau to step in. “What has not been communicated is that potentially a lot of money can be earned there by the founders.”
It’s very frustrating, says Eva. “The moment you kind of make a moral appeal to people to give money and save the planet, and you don’t say there are potentially billions for people to invest in that. (…) Jan Terlouw says he didn’t know, Winston. Quote called him and he says, ‘A profit is being made? I don’t know anything.’”
‘This can not be?!’
Winston: “I think this sweet man, who I am still very grateful for sitting here (logical, ka-ching!, ed.), was overwhelmed by the conversation with Quote. I can imagine that.”
Eva: “Did he know or did he not know?”
Winston: “I think so, but I haven’t spoken to him.”
Eva: “He says he didn’t know. The moment you perform Jan Terlouw… He is the epitome of reliability in the Netherlands and there is no one who evokes that more in viewers than him. Then it can’t be that he doesn’t know that’s part of this, can it?”
Winston: “I can’t imagine that either. I certainly don’t want to embarrass that man. (…) I didn’t get hold of him, because I have to respect his peace. After all the stress, he just doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. I tried that, of course, because I think it’s terrible, but I still really stand behind it.”
incomprehensible
It is incomprehensible, says Eva. “How can someone with your vast experience in the media not know that the moment you ask people to give money to save the planet and you don’t tell them that there are hundreds of millions or billions to be made, that’s problematic. ?”
Winston: “Yes, no, I realize that, but again: of the 1 euro 20 paid by consumers, nothing goes into anyone’s pockets. It all comes down to nature and I was here to reach the consumer.”
But those unsuspecting consumers are eventually used to make Winston and his friends very rich. If they had said that, it would have been ‘a less good marketing story’, according to table guest Nynke de Jong.
“Don’t be Sywert!”
Winston denounces that he is compared to Sywert van Lienden, including by Angela de Jong and Sander Schimmelpenninck. “That is someone who has just cheated things in order to personally benefit from it. I have nothing to do with that at all, not even to privately benefit from it,” says Winston.
He thinks it’s going too far. “I have to be honest: I was also very shocked by a message that I received from Sander who had written it. (…) I think that’s really intense when you do that to make a headline that you hope to score people on. Whether it’s selling a magazine or reading a column.”
Sander also happened to be at the table: “Winston is of course right that this is not about public money. It is of course not a hundred percent Sywertje, but what the shared factor is and what they have in common is that a different story is told at the front than at the back.”
Winston: “No, that’s really not true. Sywert has said he wasn’t going to make any money off it when asked. I was not asked that.”
‘Don’t chill’
Alexander Klöpping then bites Winston that it is just awkward. “You already felt discomfort about it yourself, because otherwise you would not have said beforehand about your own investment: ‘I don’t want to make a profit on it.’ With that, you implicitly saw that it is uncomfortable. (…) It’s just not chill in these times of Sywert.”
Winston is all disappointed: “I am a very honest person and I think injustice is something terrible in my life. (…) We should have said it sooner, it’s that simple. It’s so f*cking stupid! We should have just said, ‘This is how it was designed!’”
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