Newspaper editor blames TV for Trump’s lead in the polls

Published December 30, 2015 9:20pm ET



A newspaper publisher who excoriated GOP front-runner Donald Trump this week in an editorial says television news is to blame for thrusting the casino tycoon to the front of the polls.

Joseph McQuaid, publisher of the right-leaning New Hampshire Union-Leader, accused cable and network television Tuesday of dedicating an unreasonable amount of coverage to Trump’s presidential campaign.

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