On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries

The whole project is frustratingly indicative of CNN's political coverage at large, which-despite having the resources and hired talent to do better-manages to point its camera in the correct direction and still miss the big story entirely.

On the Trail opens the door to important conversations regarding objectivity and bias, and the deeply flawed tendency to perpetuate false equivalency in the effort to appear objective and unbiased.

It's easy to care about the women in On the Trail, and the issues they face. But the film around them doesn't feel built to last -- or to exist in a moment beyond the one for which it was intended.

A compelling look at female CNN reporters on the campaign trail- back when there was a campaign trail.