Very Dutch. No live hostage broadcast, but a day later there was a full talk show table to chat about it

Something with journalistic urgency, relevance, antennae

Let’s talk about the journalistic urgency (and relevance) of our news media, in particular RTL. Because the moment the police send out a vague message that everyone in the center of Ede must stay INSIDE due to an ongoing police action, news reporter A has to eat his sandwich, call his cameraman and stand by to go to Ede. to cart. You really don’t have to do that with every fart, but from such a great news organization like RTL Nieuws you expect A) antennas to estimate that something could be a hit and B) space, manpower and willingness to do that.

When RTL News should have gone live, we watched Tommy 4 Teleshopping, Teleshop 4 Mediashop and the eightieth rerun of Kast vol Kansen: Duncan Tromp and style coach Mirjam Hamming look at the wardrobe of a famous Dutchman. There is really only one word for that: harrowing. Posting a message online at 10.50 am with ‘the first images’ when you should have been there with your camera for two hours is exactly what it is. That is also the case that during a serious hostage situation, which is national and even international news, you are better off at www.edestad.nl than at RTL Nieuws. And when RTL finally went LIVE with an extra broadcast, at 12.30 pm, the party was over.

What is very Dutch is that eternal talk show table with that eternal Angela de Jong and her tie.. takes about EVERYTHING. Because we can do that very well. A day later, five completely uninteresting characters sit down at the table with Renze, the bullshit carton of milk, to review facts that everyone else already knew the day before, when everyone is already talking about Mathieu van der Poel. And the person who gets to chat about it is Marouscha from De Telegraaf, also a kind of competitor, who can also tweet nicely but talk less nicely. And why is it actually ‘news’ at Renze? BECAUSE IT WAS NEWS IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. Well guys, this journalistic five-a-side culture: just shoot us.
UPDATE: Hostage suspect is ‘man with psychological problems’