I totally agree with you. Infact you describe a lot of isues that they could have shown instead, which would have been much more interesting!!

You are right about, no media is ever going to film in a top gourmet restaurant anymore, unless they point out what it´s about.

This year I have been blessed be having the possibility to have dinner 3 times at NOMA and i must say the quality and service have been extraordniary good and improving over the 3 visits. Last time was 5 days after the DR Channel showed the programme, and it was the best visit ever! I feel that DR shown one side af NOMA, and as you say there are many more… It was a badly produced programe.

I hope some could show the positiviy of the danish gourmet scene! because it´s very inspireing.

best regards

Lasse

This often results in what I regard as “bad journalism” where the reaction you stir in the viewer/reader/listener/what-not is prioritized above the true or fair story. So, I’m really not surprised by how the Noma documentary turned out. It’s TV after all. I’m just dissapointed, once again.

Unfortunately, I’ve come to expect this bad journalism, because I so rarely see good journalism anymore. It does take a couple of days off of my life every time it happens (on a daily basis, if I read the online newspapers, so I stopped doing that), because of the bloodpressure it rises with me every time, but I’m getting better and better at just skipping checking the media altogether. I never watch the news anymore.

I was looking very much forward to the Noma documentary, after reading about it on your site, and saw it online the day after broadcasting (I live in Denmark, but don’t watch TV anymore). All in all I share your frustrations about the production, although I must say, I liked the “look” they’d made for the program, with the nordic colors. I found it very sincere towards the clean style of Noma. I found that the interviews, especially with his girlfriend, came out very sincere and nicely.

I was actually one of the few, it seems, who wasn’t shocked at all by his way of dealing with his employees. It could be much worse! and in fact, I thought he was very fair. He even gave reasons for his behaviour to his staff – how many kitchen chefs do that?

When you are in the World’s top 10, you have to expect that your staff is up to the job every hour and every minute of the workday. Yes, it’s tough, but also necessary. If you’re not up for it, you don’t work at this level. I totally understand, why René can’t accept slow learners, or people who don’t “get” the food or the servings.

Not every workplace can be a diplomatic sit-in-a-circle-and-let’s-discuss-everything kind of place, even though the union academics apparently think that. On another note, the employees actually seemed very happy about working there. They thought René was hard, but fair. All employees can have a sh*it day, where everything goes wrong, and the boss is after you. Who of us haven’t tried that? Just a shame that the production team made “emotion-porn” out of it, to make it look like René ruined these people’s lifes, instead of conveying a fair story. But again, bad journalism – hardly surprising.

http://dr.dk/Dokumentar/tv/DR1/2008/1105154542.htm