 The Tower of Babble is a memoir that focuses on how Stursberg saw CBC operations between 2004 and 2010 . He reveals details about his relationships with CBC presidents , Robert Rabinovitch and Hubert Lacroix and his fellow executives . Written about a year after he left CBC , Stursberg uses several themes such as illustrating the corporation 's deficiencies , such as the motif " superior losers " to describe attitude of superiority at the CBC despite low ratings , elaborating on what CBC should be ( providers of popular content ) , and defending his work there . His aggressive defense against his critics was compared to a similar tactic found in Conrad Black 's memoir , A Matter of Principle , which was released only a few months before . In addition to being called a " tell @-@ all memoir " , the book was also described as " as much an elegy as a chronicle " , a " catalogued defence ... [ or ] parting shot " and like a " diary of a battlefield general " . Regarding the title , a biblical reference to the Tower of Babel , one reviewer believed it to " hint at Stursberg 's view of [ CBC ] as the place that business common sense forgot " while another reviewer thought it " reflect [ ed ] the warring languages spoken by the author and his detractors " 
