TV review Almost all talk shows are now on the hand of the VVD

Good morning Netherlands (NPO 1) started the second half on Tuesday morning with a cheerful item about Rick Astley, whose old hit ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ had achieved the milestone of one billion streams on Spotify. They had to go to guest Sjuul Paradijs, Telegraph-Baas in Rugste, explain what ‘rickrolling’ meant: the online prank that people apparently sent each other a nice video, but in reality the nagging earwig from Astley.

« Let’s go to The Hague for rock ‘n’ roll! » said the presenter, and he switched to his cheerful reporter in the course of the PVV group. He had just started his chat when he was dragged by a stream of cameramen towards the white fire door. He just escaped the microphone cord around his neck. Rock ‘n’n-roll! When Geert Wilders stepped through the fire door to announce the fall of his cabinet, Good morning Netherlands Furthermore, checking it NOS Journal Braked and took over the broadcast.

That’s how it thus thundered throughout the day. Everyone was allowed to give Wilders a stump. Ad-Reporter Elodie Verweij told in Eva (NPO 1) that she had looked deep into Wilders. She saw: « A man who wanted to leave. » It is a divorce, clarifies politically clear Ron Fresen. « Well, someone ran from the house and leaves us with the dishes, » stricter outgoing minister Eelco Heinen (Finance, VVD). The abandoned coalitionmates of Wilders were stunned, pissed off and disappointed, the fall of the cabinet was « irresponsible » and « unnecessary. » For fifteen hours this story was repeated in all news sections and talk shows.

All talk shows? No, one program continued to resist the dominant narrative: Unheard news (NPO 1). Here in the upside down, they rightly thought it was that Wilders ran away from the cabinet. He should have done much earlier. He was greatly opposed in the coalition. That cabinet could not even be called the right. According to the program, Wilders was able to count on a big win in the elections. After all, the own people stood right behind his asylum plans. They blamed Wilders that he did nothing about the structure of his movement. Example: « Nobody ended up at the NPO with a little conservative sound. »

Three times De Telegraaf

Huh? The shocking thing is that the public broadcaster three times De Telegraaf has become. Main channel NPO 1 is opened by every working day by Good morning Netherlands and closed by Good evening Netherlands – Talk shows of the right -wing broadcaster WNL, once founded by De Telegraaf. In between, Eva, where VVD sympathies also apply as a matter of course. Eva Jinek had returned from vacation for the occasion and presented her talk show after her substitute, Hila Noorzai. Painful for the substitute because Jinek set up a dazzling political show in which all the other talk programs faded.

The shocking thing is that there is little room in between Unheard news And the other talk shows. Although they are all in the hand of the VVD, they proclaim the same ideas. For example, it is completely normal to notice ‘migration’ (read: refugees of color) as a ‘big problem’.

That turned out to be the strongest Today Inside (SBS6). Just like Jinek, Johan Derksen had returned from vacation for one day to discuss the fall of the cabinet with a sloppy holiday horse. The powerful opinion leader (one million viewers) once supported Baudet and then behind Wilders. Now he said he was ashamed of that error. He was back at the VVD.

Good news for Dilan Yesilgöz, who joined him. The VVD leader gave the election campaign a flying start by appearing in just three talk shows in a row. Her repetitive message: Wilders is a runaway who does not bake it, so you better vote for me, because I have exactly the same ideas about asylum seekers and Muslims.

For example, the election struggle in the grim realization started that all TV channels are firmly in the hands of racist right. And that the voters will soon be tackled: they think they vote for that neat VVD, but they get the old song from Geert Wilders.

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