CNN analyst inadvertently highlights media's failure to cover Democratic policy efforts
Rachael Bade says “nobody's really writing about” Democratic policy efforts because they're distracted by infighting
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On CNN’s New Day, CNN political analyst Rachael Bade portrayed the Democratic House caucus as paralyzed by infighting, even as she went on to note that media outlets aren’t covering substantive policies Democrats are voting on, inadvertently underscoring this failure of the press. Bade described a debate among Democrats started by recent comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as “a mess,” and co-host John Berman brought up up a New York Times story that he said claimed “the Democratic platform may have been derailed a little bit.”
However, Bade herself pointed out that Democrats last week passed a “landmark gun control bill basically expanding background checks” and that they plan to pass a “landmark sort of bill regarding campaign finance.” The For the People Act seeks to address “the overwhelming influence of money and special interests” in politics and focuses on automatic voter registration, eliminating partisan gerrymandering, and “making campaign finance more transparent and less dominated by big money.” Bade’s commentary that “right now nobody’s really writing about” Democrats’ policy moves inadvertently underscored the media’s persistent problem of failing to cover policy.
From the March 7 edition of CNN’s New Day: