Time for a news quiz:What presidential candidate scored 11 percent in California polls where he was pitted against Clinton and Dole – but has never been mentioned by the big three TV networks?

I found out, by reading a newspaper from a foreign country, that Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, declared his candidacy last November 28. I also found out, by scanning the Vanderbilt news archive on the Internet, that the word Nader has never been mentioned in any evening news telecast from ABC, CBS or NBC from that date up to the present!

I urge all readers to phone or write to the national TV news organizations, insisting that they bring this story out of hiding.

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Associate professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature