Subliminal Messages from CBC News?

Tony Burman has already announced his imminent departure under curious circumstances . So, I was reading his CBC Inside Media blog and couldn't help but wonder...given the CBC's ever increasing appetite for ratings, and ominous new consultant hires, is Tony trying to tell us something?

"..I agree it’s undeniable that, for many, the over-the-top coverage of Paris Hilton — a young woman known for nothing other than her “well-knowness’ — has become the latest metaphor of a news media spiralling downward into a sewer."