The media thinks that going crazy over federal workers losing their jobs is a winning strategy. And so it’s doubling and tripling down on this insanity.

The survivor’s guilt-stricken remaining employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to “pick up the pieces” and figure out how to continue delivering life-saving information to the public, after the shock firing of hundreds of America’s foremost experts in weather forecasting and earth sciences on Thursday.

“Survivor’s guilt”? For not getting fired?

This is embarrassing even for CNN. When three-quarters of a million Americans lost their jobs last year, there was no media discussion about other employees suffering from ‘survivor’s guilt’.

Instead, the media hyped what a great time it was to look for new jobs.

Now the media is treating federal workers who weren’t fired like Holocaust survivors. This is completely out of proportion to anything even liberals are comfortable with.

The employees being fired were ‘probationary’ which means that they knew they could be fired and they were relatively recent hires and their loss is not going to cripple anything.

Here’s the media’s test example.

Tom DiLiberto, who until Thursday had worked as a climate and weather scientist and public affairs specialist, told CBS News he started as a contractor for NOAA back in 2010, but became a federal employee less than two years ago. His probationary period was set to end on March 13, 2025, two weeks from the day he was terminated.

“You’re seeing the whittling away of scientists, and the people who got fired today are some of the best people you can imagine,” DiLiberto said. “These people have dedicated their lives to help others. There’s no politics in this. When we forecast, or think of the oceans and keep them clean, we’re not thinking about the politics. This is an insult on science and all that’s good.”

DiLiberto had been a forecaster for El Niño and La Niña and, as a public affairs specialist in the office of communications, said he wrote for the El Niño Southern Oscillation blog for a decade. He published his final blog for the service the same day he was let go.

He was a blogger. ‘Public affairs’ personnel are absolutely dispensable. At NOAA, he helped “develop strategic communications and topline messages for NOAA” and served “as a climate spokesperson for NOAA”.

According to CNN, this means we’re all about to die.

“Ships will not be able to safely navigate through our waterways. Farmers will not have the data they need to manage their crops. NOAA’s workforce keeps people alive and provides communities with the scientific support tools to protect their families and grow their businesses,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, said in a statement. “This action is a direct hit to our economy, because NOAA’s specialized workforce provides products and services that support more than a third of the nation’s GDP.”

Elon Musk and the Trump administration “just don’t understand the concept of, like, helping people for the sake of helping people without having some ulterior motives,” said Tom Di Liberto, a public affairs specialist and climate scientist fired from NOAA on Thursday. “They don’t understand the concept of what NOAA is about, which is just service to others.”

Americans are paying premium dollars for that service. In 2024, they voted to stop paying for it.