Word: antivivisectionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the longstanding equal-time rule, broadcasters who made time available to one candidate were required to do so for all the others, no matter how minor. Thus, the candidate for, say, the Antivivisectionist Party was entitled to the same exposure as a Democrat or Republican. Designed to encourage debate, the rule actually stifled it. The networks avoided the burden of providing time to marginal candidates by giving less time to any of them...