Peter Bart Editor-At-Large“If you want to make consistently lousy decisions, hire a consultant.” That was the defiant dictum that Ted Turner barked at me a few years ago when I was doing a column about his latest financial crisis.
I had told him that one of his outside advisers had decreed that his decision-making process was “off the wall,” and Turner’s response was, as always, candid: “It’s my company and I don’t like other voices in the room.”Turner’s high-decibel comment came to mind this week as I studied the proliferating squadrons of consultants and advisers being hired to deal with virtually every sector of the pop culture landscape.
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