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Book Review: Tower of Babble an entertaining, infuriating, look at Stursberg’s CBC

I’VE HEARD SOME CRITICIZE Richard Stursberg’s just-launched book, The Tower of Babble: Sins Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC, as “the gospel according to Richard.” After reading it I’d say well, yeah, it is his name on the cover, after all. The book is an easy, entertaining read bound to inform, anger, confuse and confirm a lot about what folks in the industry have thought about both the author and his subject matter, our national public broadcaster. Stursberg positions himself as something of a saviour of the 75-year-old public broadcaster who came in, raised English TV from the ashes and...