Richard Lake: Several weeks ago, a story written by a free-lancer ran on page 11 of the main section in the New York Times.
It was not groundbreaking, nor particularly revelatory.
It concerned the small town of Battle Mountain in Northern Nevada, halfway between Reno and Utah in Lander County.
The town, whose main industry is gold mining, seems to be weathering the worldwide economic collapse just fine, thank you.
Gold prices are very high right now, which means unemployment in Battle Mountain is low, good-paying jobs are plentiful, and foreclosures are unheard of, the piece declared.
In the normal manner for how the news business often works, a Reno television station followed up with its own report, which was then followed by one from NBC News, which ran nationwide last week.
And so it was that seven years of ridicule began to vanish.
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