De Vries wrote a column last month NRC about the sexually transgressive behavior she experienced at NOS Sport. After the abuses became known, the editors-in-chief of NOS Sport resigned. “The consequences should not have been so great at all,” she says.
She also believes that the consequences for her former colleague who bombarded her with sexually tinted remarks are greater than necessary. De Vries, who is now a cycling analyst at the Belgian Sporzadescribed how NOS Sport did not act against the colleague after her report.
“In my case, the consequences for the perpetrator are disproportionate to the crime. He is now being looked at everywhere for the story, and now doors may close for him.”
De Vries thinks that nothing would have happened if the colleague had been corrected from above at the time. “It didn’t have to turn out that way at all. For dirty talk you deserve a reprimand, not a public scandal.”
‘I was just a small cog in the whole’
De Vries wrote that NOS Sport did not ask her back as an analyst after the complaint about her colleague. “I was just a small cog in the whole thing. And the easiest solution was to remove that one cog. That way the machine kept running and no one saw anything.”
“In my column I wanted to make it clear how big such a decision is for that cog. It is humiliating to feel that you are treated so carelessly. That you are a pawn that can be thrown off the board.”
The editors-in-chief of NOS Sport would first retire in phases, but decided after an article by de Volkskrant immediately about the abuses. In addition, presenter Tom Egbers, among others, temporarily suspended his activities after allegations of misconduct.
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