Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4: Broadcasting.

You should listen to it for a number of reasons: Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of the more brilliant human beings on the planet. And he can crack a good joke now and then. Give it a listen.

The Globe and Mail this weekend published a piece by Jennifer Wells on the head of the CBC, Richard Stursberg, in an attempt to discern if his intentions for the CBC are fair or foul.

My own opinion of Mr. Stursberg is well known - I consider him to be a pompous self-serving corporate weasel with all the management flair of a sack of fertilizer. Having said that I also think he would benefit from listening to Mr. Fry’s words. Not that Stursberg (note how I have now dropped the “Mr.”) will ever change - he is a product of the MBA dementia which has seized our times and is determined to drag us all down with them to their well-organized hell - even it destroys our culture, our lives and our entire world in the process. But perhaps - just perhaps - it might cause him to reconsider the current spate of heinous actions which have taken place at the CBC under his guidance. Not a very likely occurrence, I grant you, but one must never give up hope.

Reading the article on Stursberg (and digging a little deeper into his character - which doesn’t take long since it’s a rather shallow journey) and then listening to Stephen Fry speak about the same issues which have been bedeviling the BBC it quickly becomes clear what the differences between the two really are:

Richard Stursberg is an ignorant toad and a disingenuous hypocrite of the most loathsome sort.

Mister Stephen Fry, on the other hand, is someone to be inspired by and to be listened to.

I could go on and perhaps should in order to better define my argument but I’m just so furious at Dickturd Stursberg I refuse to waste any more time on him today and will instead sit in my backyard and make plans for moving to Norwich or some other such place which I understand are lovely at any time of year. I won’t actually move, of course. Even though my family comes from England I have been far enough removed from that septic sceptered isle long enough to understand why my forebears crossed an ocean to get away.

But we still share much as a cultures - and we would both benefit from watching how both sides of the same arguments get played out in this coming year. Maybe during that time we’ll finally get some answers as to why the Harper government is choosing to ignore the recent Heritage Committee Report on the CBC and is instead pursuing a policy entirely antithetical to the reports conclusions, choosing to pursue a “business” model for Canada’s public broadcaster which fits nicely with Turdsberg’s and will result in the inevitable and inexorable dismantling of the CBC.

Did I neglect to mention I perceive Richard Stursberg as a deranged, diseased and festering genital blight upon our nation?

Just checking.

Cheers.