Pre-eminent Communicators
Former heads of the CBC and the CRTC have reached the autobiography-writing stage November 2004
The CBC and its supervisor, the CRTC, are certainly public institutions, and they are headed by administrators of almost no public profile. Why should it be otherwise? One is a national broadcaster, the other regulates a rich and occasionally cultural broadcast industry at which the CBC is theoretically the centre. These are important bodies, but the supervisors appointed by the government ought not to have any more public standing than the chair of the Great Lakes Commission or any egg marketing…