Ouimet, the anonymous CBC insider, had these thoughts on the looming departure of CBC editorial honcho Tony Burman:

Tony is going and many people found his style somewhat irritating, but he was in many ways, from what I heard in several meetings, at least in the first year after the end of the lockout, the defensive line against Richard Stursberg, one man, not the front four in football.

Note: Ouimet must not work in sports. The offensive line protects against the other side's defensive line, who are on the attack. There are five people on an offensive line and between three and four on the defensive line. Anyway, Ouimet could have chosen a better metaphor. Onward we go ...

I don't know exactly what happened in the fall of 2006, but it appears that something changed across the top levels of CBC at that time, not only with Burman, but with Sue Gardner and other managers who have left or are about to leave (there are more coming) but that is when a lot of senior people decided "it's not fun any more." ...

How often have we heard "time for change" in the past few months as manager after manager who are not on Stursberg's "team" has left? I know other managers and the boomers across the Corpse are counting the days until early retirement. With the current turmoil among the private broadcasters, all the rest can do is knuckle their foreheads to Mr. Scrooge/Stursberg--at least for now.

Actually, the private sector (where I work) looks like an oasis of tranquility compared to the upper reaches of the Corpse these days.