Of course, Catherine once had her own very popular talk show, which is why she… after all the hype around DDD – asked the magazine about what happened behind the scenes. “Authoritarian behavior was normal in those days. Publishers are much less used to it now. They are spoiled princes and princesses and if something goes wrong, the boat is over,” she says.
Don’t mince words about “whiny editors.” “It’s not a paper job, is it? If you have to go live at half past five, you still can’t argue between one minute and half past five. Decisions have to be made. Especially if you have annoying editors, sometimes you want to say “Shut up and get to work.”
In HLF8 Catherine calls it “very intense” Thursday nights that Matthijs in the fifteen years he has DDD presented was never corrected. “People were hired to protect staff and they all failed.” He continues: “Everyone can say: what an idiot that Matthijs van Nieuwkerk is. It’s all true, it’s all gone too far,” says Keyl. “But it’s never been corrected for fifteen years. And I find it very intense.”
The presenter also says that she herself never noticed the annoying atmosphere behind the scenes DDD. “You don’t realize it. He’s a crazy craftsman, that’s clear. I’m very jealous of what that man makes, but that has nothing to do with it.”
Even in the new installment of BLVD Podcasts Luuk and Rob extensively discuss all the abuse a DDD:
