Deregulation by Firing? Silence Surrounds Deadly Floods and NWS Layoffs
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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Jeremy Murphy.
On a recent Price of Business show, Host Kevin Price visited with former CBS TV Vice President, Jeremy Murphy.
As deadly floods tore through the Texas Hill Country this summer, leaving devastation and lives lost in their wake, a haunting question looms: Where were the warnings—and could this tragedy have been prevented?
Earlier this year, the National Weather Service (NWS) underwent mass layoffs, part of a broader federal effort to slash what some in Washington call “bureaucratic bloat.” But what was really cut? Many of those pink slips went to experienced meteorologists, forecasters, and emergency communications staff—people whose jobs were quite literally to save lives.
Yet in the aftermath of these catastrophic floods, the silence from media and public officials has been deafening. Where is the investigation into whether these layoffs compromised the NWS’s ability to alert communities in time? Why isn’t anyone asking whether this is what deregulation by firing actually looks like in practice?
We scrutinize every political misstep, every tweet, every scandal—but when it comes to deadly consequences tied to the gutting of public safety infrastructure, we look away.
This isn’t about partisanship. It’s about accountability. If a private company cut essential safety staff before a fatal disaster, there’d be hearings, lawsuits, and nonstop media outrage. But when the federal government does it under the guise of efficiency, we get shrugs.
Lives were lost. Warnings were missed. And the question hangs heavy in the air: Is this the price of deregulation?
It’s time someone asked.
According to a statement, “Jeremy Murphy is a sarcastic, embittered veteran of the media industry. Founder of 360bespoke, a respected boutique PR agency in New York, Murphy handles a full roster of clients in the lifestyle, beauty, fashion, and start-up fields. Previously, he was Vice President of Communications at CBS, where he worked for 14 years. There, he oversaw PR for many of its divisions and created its glossy magazine Watch. Murphy started as a journalist, working with Knight Ridder newspapers and Mediaweek. He is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and lives in New York with his cat, Champers.”
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