How a Prison Fire Helped Create CBS News
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Micah. Before we get into Brooks' interview for the Midweek podcast, I want to tell you about a brand new original series that the team and I have been working on for months. It drops on Friday. Here's the trailer. |
| 0:13.6 | Storms, floods, and fires are ever more extreme. And yet, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting for its life. |
| 0:22.1 | I've never been a big fan of FEMA. |
| 0:23.6 | FEMA is very expensive, and it really doesn't get the job done. |
| 0:27.1 | How did the agency tasked with saving America become so despised? |
| 0:31.8 | Seema is a disaster. |
| 0:32.9 | Feems a dirty way. |
| 0:33.8 | So distrusted. |
| 0:35.1 | People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps. |
| 0:38.3 | And defunded. |
| 0:39.3 | We could see the next Katrina-level disaster based on the stripping away of FEMA that we have seen. |
| 0:44.3 | Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it? |
| 0:48.3 | And can we survive without FEMA? |
| 0:50.3 | Whenever there's a disaster, the first thing people say is, where's FEMA? |
| 0:55.0 | American Emergency, the Movement to Kill FEMA, is a brand new on-the-media series reported by me, Michael Loanger. |
| 1:02.4 | First episode drops May 1st. See you then. |
| 1:17.7 | This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm for Gladstone. |
| 1:28.7 | In late March, CBS News editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss, and President Tom Sibrowski, sent out a memo that said they were shutting down CBS News Radio. |
| 1:34.9 | CBS News Radio provides material for an estimated 700 stations across this country, but no more. |
| 1:41.2 | The service is scheduled now to come to an end on May 22nd. CBS News says the change is coming as the world moves on to digital sources and podcasts. |
| 1:46.1 | It first went on the air, September of 1927. |
| 1:50.7 | In the memo announcing the closure, Weiss and Sobrowski wrote that CBS News Radio served as the |
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