Why isnt the secret Trumpcare bill front pagenews?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The informal July 4 deadline Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has set for Senate Republicans to pass a health care bill that could strip coverage from 23 million Americans is rapidly approaching — but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the front page of major newspapers across the country on Monday.

National outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post featured no front-page coverage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), also known as Trumpcare, which is being secretly written by an all-male group of senators. The lack of attention being paid to the bill indicates McConnell’s strategy of avoiding publicity by drafting the bill behind closed doors, holding no hearings, and unveiling the bill’s text at the last possible minute is paying dividends.

https://thinkprogress.org/senate-republicans-are-scheming-to-pass-trumpcare-in-secret-to-avoid-negative-press-its-working-a11641ca349a

[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. Might be because of who owns he major media outlets... n/m

[elleng]

2. because it's secret???

[BigmanPigman]

3. It isn't being taken seriously by the media.

[LakeArenal]

4. Because the second it is known, the world will go ballistic.

[Hortensis]

5. Actually, this is being heavily discussed in reputable national media.

At this point, only the secrecy is news, and that's not of "headline" interest to most people. Certainly not for the weeks this is expected to continue.

And even the secrecy is not new for Republicans. This was SOP when Tom "The Hammer" DeLay was Speaker, who routinely required his caucus to vote on legislation they had not read, or even heard any details of. Heading a top-down power structure over a pack of mostly authoritarian followers confers some real advantages on Republican leaders, if not on democracy.

Note the the Democratic Party does not have a strong top-down authoritarian structure because we, liberals especially, just don't do authoritarianism. We're the anti-fascists. Instead we have leaders trying to create consensuses between the various power blocs that form around issues -- and the term "herding cats."