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The Atlantic Wire picked up my post from last night remembering — with photographic evidence — the time when Times-Mirror CEO Mark Willes commissioned a sniff test comparing the smell of his L.A. Times with other papers. "Everybody made fun of The Los Angeles Times when they hired a former General Mills executive as CEO, which was the right thing to do since he ran the company into the ground with his zany ideas," writes the site's Adam Clark Estes. "Ultimately, it wasn't stinky paper that was holding the L.A. Times back."
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