New Hampshire’s biggest newspaper, the Union Leader, isn’t happy with how much press Donald Trump got this week, despite him being a no-show to the paper’s Republican presidential primary forum on Monday.
In an editorial on Tuesday, the Union Leader said the national media paid too much attention to Trump rather than the 14 candidates who attended a forum hosted by the paper.
A sample of some headlines about the forum includes the New York Times, “Uneven Performances in Trump-less Republican Forum”; CBS News, “GOP candidates (except Donald Trump) appear at New Hampshire forum”; and CNN, “Republican forum begins Monday without Donald Trump.”
“It says a lot about the political media, none of it good, that some of the most successful current and former governors in the country, some of the most thought-provoking current and former U.S. senators, along with an impressive former executive and a world-renowned surgeon, can talk politics for two hours and the story is about what was not said by a candidate who was not there,” the Union Leader said.
“Maybe the national political press will do the voters a favor and cover more of them. After all, it is the voters, not the press, who should pick the nominee,” it said.
Trump will, however, be present at Thursday’s prime-time Republican debate, hosted by Fox News.
