Wednesday, 7 July 2021 at 13:21• Rian Rosendaal • Last update: 13:29

Television critic Angela de Jong will wipe the floor on Wednesday with the NOS. The columnist of the General Newspaper criticizes the broadcaster’s reporting in the hours after the attack on Peter R. de Vries. De Jong believes that competitor RTL things much better after it became known that the crime journalist in Amsterdam had been shot in the head.

“If life were a football match, I would write that RTL Nieuws won a resounding victory over the NOS on Tuesday evening”, De Jong opens her contribution from Wednesday. “The national news service got to see all corners of the field, was spanked, even humiliated, in the coverage of the attack on Peter R. de Vries.” The journalist finds it incomprehensible that the NOS did not adjust the programming and just continued with the preview of the semi-final match at the European Championship between Italy and Spain in London.

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“It was a few lines in the tail of the Achtuur news at the NOS. After which Henry Schut (presenter of Studio Europa, ed.) on disaster channel NPO 1 happily chatted about Italy-Spain and it was Rafael van der Vaart who had to say that in his head he was not at all concerned with the tactics of Roberto Mancini or how things were going with Leonardo Spinazzola,” De Jong said. It was indeed quickly clear on Tuesday evening that Van der Vaart was clearly touched by the news about the attack on Peter R. de Vries.

Analyst Ibrahim Afellay described Giorgio Chiellini as a ‘serial killer’, to which Van der Vaart responded immediately. “He’s just talking about a serial killer,” said the former midfielder in Studio Europe. “You know, there are also more important things in life. We all just heard about Peter R. de Vries, that will come in of course. Let’s hope it all turns out well. So there are more important things.” Van der Vaart immediately received support from Schut. “You are absolutely right.”

At the end of her column, De Jong repeats once again that the NOS completely missed the mark on Tuesday evening. According to her, the attack in Amsterdam affected ‘the whole country’. “However, the NOS judged that a game of football was more important. Incomprehensible, but true. They should be ashamed of themselves there. Peter and I regularly differed in opinion, also at talk show tables. But I am sure that he would say the same this time, in very hard terms. terms, if he could sit down somewhere tonight (Wednesday evening, ed.).