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RTL News has discovered that the controversial report by the Van Rijn committee on abuses in public broadcasting was deleted after publication. These are words and passages that make a harsh judgment about the NOS. The wording has been removed or adjusted at the request of the NOS management. According to the committee, there was a mistake. A draft version would have been published in which the NOS response had not yet been incorporated.
Comparative research by RTL News makes it clear which words have been adjusted. For example, in criticism of the NOS leadership, the word ‘failing’ was changed to ‘failing’. The designation ‘board members’ to whom the failure referred has been completely removed from the sentence.
It is not unusual for organizations to view passages relating to themselves before publication. This way, factual inaccuracies can be prevented. In this case, however, the tone has also been toned down.
The draft version of the report states that the management ‘recognized’ the picture that the committee paints about the situation at NOS Sport. This has been changed in the latest version to ‘recognize broadly’. In the same paragraph, the sentence that the management was ‘surprised and shocked’ by the signals from its own investigation has been deleted. (…) Later in the report, a complete paragraph is deleted. It stated that ‘the pattern outlined by the committee, and in particular the negative assessment of questionnaire respondents’, had surprised the NOS management.
Gerard Timmer, who was previously director of BNNVARA, heads the management. The abuses at DWDD took place at that time.
2024-02-06 19:27:10
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