A Low-Budget, Anti-Drilling Puppet Show

Scott Detrow

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

July 28, 2011 | 3:00 PM

Correction: Nathan Sooy points out Pennsylvania’s Gas Truth did not put together this video, as I wrote yesterday. Instead, it was made by a New York group with the same name.
If puppets, cats, and heavy-handed messaging are your thing, then you’ll enjoy this new video from anti-drilling activist group Gas Truth (not the PA group.)
The six-minute video takes the narrative form of a conversation between a tiger and a house cat.