Honestly, the whole way EBU handled this all is just a mess. Being completely intransparent while allowing tons of different rumors to emerge, delaying a countdown that implies a statement “for two hours” and then longer indefinitely, and now still not openly sharing the facts and just talking about inappropriate behaviour. I don’t think you can reasonably condemn or support Joost just because we really don’t know what happened or even if he did something (innocent until proven guilty I guess).
I know that in an ongoing investigation you can’t directly share everything you know and that you might want to take some time to research without it going public, but they still could have dealt with this better… either just letting him perform in the rehearsal to prevent it from going public and rumors spreading or sharing more about what they know and announcing when they will make an official statement.
It’s as you say, they can’t really comment on what happened because there’s an investigation going on. Based on the outcome of that, I think it would be time to support or condemn Joost.
And those rumours would happen anyway. Clickbait drama outlets gonna be clickbait drama outlets.
Honestly, the whole way EBU handled this all is just a mess. Being completely intransparent while allowing tons of different rumors to emerge, delaying a countdown that implies a statement “for two hours” and then longer indefinitely, and now still not openly sharing the facts and just talking about inappropriate behaviour. I don’t think you can reasonably condemn or support Joost just because we really don’t know what happened or even if he did something (innocent until proven guilty I guess).
I know that in an ongoing investigation you can’t directly share everything you know and that you might want to take some time to research without it going public, but they still could have dealt with this better… either just letting him perform in the rehearsal to prevent it from going public and rumors spreading or sharing more about what they know and announcing when they will make an official statement.
It’s as you say, they can’t really comment on what happened because there’s an investigation going on. Based on the outcome of that, I think it would be time to support or condemn Joost.
And those rumours would happen anyway. Clickbait drama outlets gonna be clickbait drama outlets.