NPR should've drawn on local affiliates' journalism in examining natural-gas drilling, ombudsman says

Some local National Public Radio affiliates in New York and Pennsylvania are doing a good job covering the environmental and public-health issues of natural-gas drilling, and could have provided needed balance to the network's report last month on how technology had expanded and changed the industry, says NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard.

http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2009/10/nprs_useful_but_flawed_series_1.html