Thank you to Rachel Maddow and staff for the story on fracking November 15th. It took a lot of guts to cover this very important topic and in my opinion this moves Rachel to the top of the msnbc news shows. The natural gas companies are  spending millions to run propaganda adds on msnbc throughout the news lineup. The almost total absence of any discussion of this important issue is obvious to anyone following this growing problem. The occupy movement clearly shows that the 99% have rejected how big corporations have hijacked our government . Have they also hijacked the media? Rachel and the rest of msnbc’s reporters must start exposing the clear and present danger of fracking and the short sighted greedy gas companies that are pushing this poisonous practice. Those of us who live in the northeast see the similarities with the mess that coal mining left for the taxpayers to clean up. Fracking has the potential to leave an even more devastating legacy. The continuing lack of any real coverage of this issue seriously brings into question how much influence advertisers have on msnbc and all the news networks.