Cartt.ca IN-DEPTH: Former chief of CBC English Services Richard Stursberg is better than Stalin

RICHARD STURSBERG CAN be a polarizing figure. He knows he rubs some people the wrong way (and I think he kinda likes being the thorn in some sides). You can read that personality throughout his recent book, Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC. He admits as much on many pages, calling himself “arrogant”, “insouciant” and “insubordinate” and reading through some of what he describes about his time at the Corp., it’s hard not to disagree with his self-assessment. Stursberg was actually my first interview when I started covering the electronic media industry in 1997. At the...