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It was founded in by two Spanish actors who needed a big city to fail in before they could realize their dreams of waitering. Despite the intolerable smell of whale carcasses and a lice infestation that became permanent, the city grew in popularity thanks to the ready availability of marijuana and artisanal smoothies. By the mids, buoyed by the California Gold Rush and a budding pornography industry, Los Angeles had become a densely populated haven for hooligans, bandits, prostitutes and executive producers.

Fortunately, it was destroyed by an earthquake in and remained vacant until the early s, when a man named Francis Cocaine rode in on his donkey, 8-Ball, and began planting coca seeds between the whale carcasses.

The coca plants beautified the land and Cocaine enjoyed his privacy until one day he tripped and fell nostril-first into a pile of dry coca leaves. Seventy-nine hours later he had built a small city and was still going strong as passing settlers began to move into the various houses and apartment buildings. Beutner, who had been heading up the largest newspaper in the Chicago-based Tribune Publishing chain, was let go for what sources said was lagging financial performance and a series of expensive executive hires seen by some as a prelude to a potential political run by the city's former deputy mayor.

A recent bid to take the Los Angeles Times private and a widening gulf between Beutner and Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin may also have precipitated the change at the top of the paper's masthead, sources said. His mission will be to align the California News Group with the company's broader portfolio, where the Chicago Tribune and other properties have outperformed it financially, sources said. A spokesman for Tribune Publishing declined to comment on Beutner's firing Tuesday morning.

Beutner was named to his post in August , one week after Tribune Publishing spun off from Tribune Media as a stand-alone newspaper company under Griffin. Sources said that Tribune Publishing was unhappy with the financial performance of the two brands, specifically the Los Angeles Times, which represents a third of the company's revenue. A number of Beutner's high-profile hires at the Los Angeles Times didn't sit well with Tribune Publishing, especially those with political undertones.

Those include Internet strategist Nicco Mele, who helped move political campaigning into the digital era and was named deputy publisher of the paper in November, as well as Johanna Maska, who served in various roles with the Obama administration before being named vice president of marketing and communications in April. The company announced earlier this month it could not comply with the regulations and would delete its existing EU user accounts before the deadline.

Some of the lingering questions for companies dealing with GDPR compliance include figuring out what types of data that customers could potentially request and how to retrieve the data and package it. A lack of compliance means regulators can hit companies with steep fines and force them to compensate users for their data. While the regulation is enforced in Europe, some of the protections could be extended to Americans. Tribune Publishing was subsequently spun off, allowing Tribune Co. Twitter RobertChannick.

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