OPINION: Why is the National Media Obsessed With the Measles Outbreak in West Texas?

SEMINOLE, TX — Day after day, national media outlets from the New York Times to Rolling Stone have a new story about the measles outbreak in West Texas.

There have been more than 160 cases of measles reported since late January, most of them involving school-aged children in the South Plains area between Odessa and Lubbock.

One child died, though it’s unknown if there were any underlying health conditions.

The small town of Seminole has been the epicenter of the focus after the origin of the outbreak was traced to a Mennonite community in Gaines County. 

Many people in the Mennonite community choose not to receive vaccinations, though the vast majority of the American population is vaccinated against measles.

So why are so many national media outlets concerned about this?

You could argue it’s because they care so much about our health, but these are also the same people that pushed the disastrous COVID-19 vaccines on us and have lied to us repeatedly.

Let’s call their coverage of the measles outbreak what it really is — an irresistible opportunity to attack Republicans and endorse the media’s biggest advertisers, pharmaceutical companies.

Virtually every story takes a shot at Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary appointed by President Donald Trump.

These liberal outlets have long painted RFK as a crazy conspiracy theorist who is anti-vaccine, and now he’s even more of an enemy since joining forces with Trump.

The truth is that RFK is pushing for a healthier America, many of his “conspiracy theories” have been proven true, and he’s skeptical of vaccines.

Why shouldn’t he be? Pharmaceutical companies are the most criminal companies in U.S. history in terms of fines they’ve been ordered by courts to pay, because they’ve knowingly lied about data when it comes to dangerous drugs they’ve pushed on the American public.

The COVID-19 pandemic was an eye opener for many people. The entire corrupt system was exposed, including oversight agencies like the CDC, which recommended the COVID shots for children as young as six months old, despite overwhelming evidence the virus didn’t pose a significant risk to kids.

The financial incentive was just too much to pass up.

It’s no wonder people were skeptical after that, and it seems reasonable to at least examine all of the vaccines with new research to help rebuild the public’s trust. Why should the pharmaceutical companies be blindly trusted when we know they’ve lied before?

Instead, the media is following the same playbook it did during COVID — attack anyone who asks questions and label them as anti-science.

This same media has no curiosity about why people are vaccine hesitant. They refuse to acknowledge the massive spike in autism cases and if they could possibly be connected to vaccines.

They have no interest in looking into illegal immigration as a possible source of the measles outbreak, because that might reflect poorly on Democrat policies that allowed the border to remain wide open.

Instead, every story parrots the same talking points about why RFK is bad and why vaccines are unquestionably good.

If these media outlets actually cared about public health in America, they’d be willing to honestly report on the other side of the aisle. 

They’d look into why some people are hesitant to get vaccines, and they’d have the bravery to investigate pharmaceutical companies. 

The fact these “journalists” have no interest in doing that tells you all you need to know.