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Article: Nobody Likes a Gossip ... ; But Townspeople Love to Read Man's Tattle Sheet
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- The Washington Post
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- January 4, 1995
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His home has been shot at and his mailbox has been stuffed with
scorpions by scornful neighbors. He has been sued for libel and
physically assaulted.
And recently, while delivering the weekly newspaper that has made
him the most reviled man in eastern Arizona, Chuck Rosa saw a lot of
obscene gestures waved from the windows of passing cars.
As owner, editor and premier writer for the Wild West News, Rosa
believes he is on a divine mission to "tell the truth" about the
8,303 people who live in and around this isolated White Mountains
community of vast, terraced canyons formed by open-pit copper mines.
"I've got supernatural protection - ain't no plane gonna crash
with me in it, and nobody's ...