NPO chairman Frederieke Leeflang is shocked by an article in de Volkskrant on cross-border behavior by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk at The world goes on (DDD). He says it on Saturday News time. “A successful program for fifteen years. Maybe these conditions for fifteen years as well. How could this have happened? Why hasn’t anything been done with the signals that have been given?”
The Volkskrant on Friday, he published a story about transgressive behavior in the workplace DDD. For years there has been a culture of fear, also due to the behavior of the presenter Van Nieuwkerk. He is said to have abused, intimidated and humiliated employees, making dozens of people ill.
NPO Chairman Leeflang announced on Saturday that the matter was being investigated at DWDD. It’s not yet clear what exactly that quest will look like. There must also be a “short-term” action plan to prevent something like this from happening again.
“It is precisely in situations like this that I think we must always look from several sides, which is why research is important. You not only look at what happened to the employees involved, but also: How did a presenter come to do this? behavior was able to show,” says Leeflang in News time.
Leeflang also said that “as yet” the non-profit organization has not yet received any signals of infringing behavior in other public broadcaster programs. “And I would also really like it if it were. I also hope that if it is, it will come out in the next period.”
Earlier this year, the NPO investigated whether there are enough confidential advisers. The reason for this was an episode of BOOS on sexually transgressive behavior The voice of Holland. “This is also one of the reasons why I asked myself the question: How is this possible? There has to be an answer.”
