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ACTION ALERT: Nader Left Out of Media Websites
June 22, 2000
According to recent political polls, the Green Party's Ralph Nader is now
the leading third party candidate for president. But you wouldn't know it
from looking at online news media websites.
In a Gallup poll released June 9, for example, Ralph Nader ranked third
among possible presidential candidates, with 6 percent, vs. 2 percent for
Buchanan; Nader edged ahead of Buchanan 4 percent to 2 percent in a May 31
Zogby Reuters poll, and led 5 percent to 4 percent in an April 29
Hart/Teeter survey. Buchanan has been included in most lists of candidates
available on most major news websites. Information about Nader, however, has
been strangely absent.
On the joint New York Times/ABC News site "Political Points," the candidates
listed under "Elections" are George W. Bush, Al Gore, Patrick Buchanan and
Alan Keyes (who is still contesting the Republican nomination despite Bush
having an insurmountable majority of committed delegates). Though the Green
Party is listed under "Parties and Persuasions," Nader is absent from the
list of possible candidates.
CBSNews.com's "Campaign 2000" site lists only Gore, Bush and Buchanan as
candidates in its "Correspondent's Handbook," which is meant to be a
"political consumer's guide" for journalists covering the elections. Though
Nader is listed in the site's "Candidate Schedules" section, he is excluded
from the more substantive "Where They Stand" and "Follow the Dollar" pages,
while Buchanan is included.
CNN.com's "White House hopefuls," like MSNBC.com's "Decision 2000" candidate
profiles, features Buchanan, Bush, Gore and Keyes-- but not Nader. Time.com
only offers profiles of Bush and Gore.
Two news sites that do include Nader in their lists of candidates are
WashingtonPost.com and FoxNews.com. (The Fox site also mentions Libertarian
candidate Harry Browne.)
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