Kirstine Stewart Formally Appointed as Boss of CBC English
Kirstine Stewart was formally appointed as the new executive vice-president for CBC English Services today.
Stewart had been filling the role on an interim basis since the former vice-president, Richard Stursberg, was dismissed in August.
A few minutes after the announcement Stewart sent this note to staff:
January 10, 2011 – When I was little, I had a tickle trunk. It was red, just like the one on TV. In the morning I watched Casey and Finnegan and Mr. Dressup discover new things everyday, dressing up in what they found in their tickle trunk.
The CBC has for 74 years been that place where Canadians, of all ages, are taken on journeys, of all kinds, to so many different and interesting places.
My particular journey has taken me from watching Mr. Dressup, to working at the place that brought those magical stories into my home. And now today I have the privilege of leading an organization that holds such an important place in the hearts and minds of people across this country.
Canadians have always expected that their public broadcaster reflect, engage and inspire them, and that is when CBC does our best work. It is when we recognize and respect this country’s unique attributes that the CBC, in any form or medium, truly thrives.The CBC gives the information and analysis Canadians need, from breaking news to enterprise stories to current affairs and everything in between. And even when the news we deliver is hard, we make it easy to get to, whether hearing it on 99.1, watching it on Rogers 582 or using an Android app to connect to CBC News.
The stories we tell, whether real or fictional, showcase a diversity of voice that recognizes and respects that Canadians have an insatiable curiosity. As a nation we enjoy a wide range of content that stimulates our brains, our hearts and even our funny bones. Canadians can thrill in the victory of favourite hockey teams, jump into a heated discussion of today’s politics, and the next minute, can relax to the sounds of a favourite piece of music.
And CBC knows how important it is to make programming that satisfies all these varied desires, and we build on what we’ve learned to make programming that celebrates and programming that challenges. But while the content may be challenging, CBC will make how Canadians get to their content easier than ever before.
CBC will define contemporary public broadcasting. We will use new platforms, new means to connect Canadians to the CBC, and to connect Canadians to each other. We will help to facilitate conversations both national and local.
For the past 74 years, the CBC has mattered. And as we move forward we will build on the best of our past to make the greatest of our future, so that CBC will matter even more.
Kirstine
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Kirstine Stewart: “Nobody can ever question the quality of what we do here in Canada, creatively or otherwise.”
Perhaps that tickle trunk also contained a sword and divine right to rule as king.
1/11/11
Speaking as a pro-CBC person…I find that quote a bit troubling for reasons of my own. If there ever was a sword in Mr. Dressup’s trunk, it might well have been Excalibur for real. It might explain how Ernie Coombs managed so well for so long!
And why we remember him with such fondness as well, now that I think it over.
“Live Right Now” on TV? How does that fit the mandate?
“Joe Canadian” replacing Barbara Budd on AIH? How is that an improvement?
Still the same silly set and format for The National?
Still a Radio 2 that nobody can listen to?
Still more of the same, Hubert?
Yes, that’s right. You heard her: the CBC is totally awesome. It’s perfect, actually. Everyone loves the CBC, and it gives you exactly what you need.
Unless you’re a Christian, or gun owner, or taxpayer, or traditionalist, or victim of crime, or have morals, or value your culture and language. Or if you’re part of the 95% of Canada that doesn’t watch the CBC, then it definitely doesn’t speak for you, either.
Please privatize the CBC.
Anonymous # 1: No thank you re: your privatization request.
And you don’t get to villify CBC’s audience as being without morals, either. Truth is an affirmative defence against your claim and will remain so in perpetuity.
Also, it’ll be interesting to refresh our memory as to how many crime victims and assorted friends and relatives of same have been interviewed over the generations by the news division’s various reporters and fact-checkers.
Im waiting to see the big, favorable story about Candice Hoeppner and her private members bill to kill the long gun registry. The CBC asked Who was the biggest Game Changer in 2010 and top of the list was Candice Hoeppner, far and above the others.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/12/06/f-politics-game-changers.html#ixzz17MSVmzvV
Come on CBC.. Surely you can’t be ignoring this poll simply because you didn’t like the resusts. That would be manufacturing opinions, not reporting them.
01/15/2011
“My particular journey has taken me from watching Mr. Dressup, to working at the place that brought those magical stories into my home.”
She forgot the part about where she’s destroying the kids department.
Stewart in charge means less transparency, more spin, and decorating shows.
damned partisan-minded Bill says:
Im waiting to see the big, favorable story about Candice Hoeppner and her private members bill to kill the long gun registry. The CBC asked Who was the biggest Game Changer in 2010 and top of the list was Candice Hoeppner, far and above the others.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/12/06/f-politics-game-changers.html#ixzz17MSVmzvV
Come on CBC.. Surely you can’t be ignoring this poll simply because you didn’t like the resusts. That would be manufacturing opinions, not reporting them.
01/15/2011
If they were actually ignoring the poll it wouldn’t be manufacturing anything. It would just be ignoring the poll. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
On the other hand if you had bothered to do even a cursory search of the CBC website you would have found over 140 stories related to her. And that’s on CBC.ca alone. Count in the numerous stories on New Network, CBC television, radio etc and the right poster-girl-du-jour certainly had her fifteen minutes.
But then recognizing that wouldn’t have played into the ever-present right-wing victimhood mantra that seems to be all the rage.
CBC and “reporting the truth” do not belong in the same sentence. The CBC is so politically correct it is laughable. This state broadcaster exists only to win support for socialism and all things lefty.
Could you please explain to me how political correctness and socialism are the same thing?
“Dexter”: Explain Don Cherry, Kevin O’Leary and Rex Murphy (among others) in that context.
Dexter,
the CBC is a state broadcaster? Like in China or in Russia?!
You have no idea what you are talking about yet, you feel compelled to pollute the debate with your blatant ignorance. Your unfounded attacks say everything we need to know about you and your ability to think for yourself.
Only partisan morons repeat such lies. (Sorry, but the time has come to call you and your tribe what you really are: ignorant partisan morons who play the hapless victims.) Way to take the bait offered by your beloved Conservative party. Spew proudly!
Thanks for the laughs.