(America First Report)—An arrest has been made in the case of the murdered 16-year-old Texas cheerleader.
Rafael Govea Romero was arrested Sunday in Schulenburg, Texas. He is accused of murdering Lizbeth Medina whose body was discovered by her mother in the bathtub of their apartment. Multiple local and national news outlets have reported on the arrest, but they all left out an important piece of information: Romero is an illegal alien.
The press release dropped by the Edna Police Department clearly points this out, but after reviewing 14 corporate media reports, none of them mentioned this detail.
Medina was supposed to perform with her cheerleading squad at a Christmas parade in Edna on Tuesday but she never made it.
Here is the GoFundMe set up to help the family.
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Editor’s Note: We generally support local news as superior to corporate national news. They often offer more insight and less bias than CNN, Fox News, or national network outlets. But there’s still a very clear prescribed narrative even with local news that makes me hesitate to share many of their stories.
Local media may be less biased, but they still reinforce the propaganda and gaslighting. Whenever illegal aliens are involved in crimes, the information of their status is usually omitted. Whenever murderers use firearms, there is invariably an obligatory pitch for the need for gun control. Perhaps most infuriating is their unwillingness to use gender in many of their stories. I read a post this week about a crime committed by a “they” — by the end of the article I still had no idea if the suspect was a man or a woman.
There is an important role played by local media that cannot be met by conservative or independent news outlets. This is why we have to demand better. If you read or watch your local news outlets, call them out when they insert their biases into reports or when they echo the approved narratives. They should represent the news in a way the local audience needs. That means simply sticking with the truth.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
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Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
