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Drilling Down: Is 'The Times' Giving Proper Credit?

By Kat Stoeffel | March 8, 2011 | 8:01 pm

Who do you have to frack to get some credit around here? That's what we're wondering after a recent New York Times series on the latest hot-button environmental issue--hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. "fracking." The Times series is packaged as a slow-cooked exposé, but a small team of reporters from ProPublica had been doggedly covering the practice since 2008--before it was even a beat, let alone the celebrity cause of Mark... MORE >