Karen Bass
Los Angeles Mayor
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How coverage of Karen Bass shifted in the last 3 days vs the prior 28.
Coverage volume jumped — Criticism of Homelessness Policy, but the underlying story is unchanged.
Coverage volume · last 28 days
1.6× normal16 episodes in 3d vs 10 typical · tone mostly negative · 8 outlets
As of Aug 15, 2026
Recent Mentions (4,637 total)
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“ Good morning. It's Friday, August 14th. I'm Austin Cross, and this is the L.A. report from L.A.S. News. lineage, frankly, in my opinion, is worn out its welcome in the community. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass had an online town hall last night. She says the company behind that burned-out Boyle Heights warehouse will miss her 45-day deadline to get everything cleaned up, and that the city can't verify their claim that 93% of the food has been removed. Bass says it's time to get the attorneys involved.”
1:04· open transcript“ tackling it at all ends and with city partners. So thank you again. And I'm Valerie Musco. I'm the mayor. And we're going to keep doing this because your quality of life, my quality of life, and our children's quality of life. It matters. Thank you and have a good day. Have you ever heard Karen Bass or Nithya Raman make that speech? Why not? That should be demanded. You got Valerie Muscoe doing it in Santa Ana. It's simple. And to the point, you get offered.”
27:43· open transcript“ Where's Bass on the street saying all these people are getting arrested? They are getting arrested. There's plenty of video, plenty of photographs. It's all online. So we're going to see how this works. Because Karen Bass won't do the job. Then Assaley and the local FBI will do the job. This is more successes coming out of the Trump administration. I know that might make you start twitching and heaving.”
28:51· open transcript“ but we haven't seen one of Karen Bass's texts about palisades. And as far as Elon Musk leave in California, the East Coast is no better. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down the big giant Amazon center that was going to go into New York. It's easy to understand why they're not enforcing the animal cruelty stuff. It's because it'll make Karen Bass and the Democrat machine look bad. That's why.”
21:37· open transcript“ Thing is, I mean, you know, you've got to make a lot of decisions, right, to film the thing and then decide you're going to post it. And it's like, what the hell? It never occurred to you that this is not the look you want. Does she have a ramen supporter working for her? Yeah, did Divya Ramen put out this? Hi, I'm Karen Bass. I'm so incompetent. So we couldn't repair the bottle.”
28:03· open transcript“ And we're going to do the moist line twice this hour, 520 and 550. Moist line numbers 877 Moist 86, 877 Moist 86, or use the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. And you could always follow us at John Cobalt Radio on social media. We're going to talk to Rick Caruso any minute now. And in addition to the moist line, we're also going to play a full clip of Karen Bass's.”
3:42· open transcript“ You know, if that's the attitude you have, why is your progressive hero, Karen Bass, not taking this kind of action? Why isn't she going out on the street like the mayor of Santa Ana? Valerie Emescua is going on the street and saying this is enough. The people, what she said is the residents have a right to drive down the street and not see this. And they do. And so do we.”
29:20· open transcript“ Morons like Gavin Newsom, like Karen Bass, like Nithya Raman, and all the other lunatics like Xavier Becerra that are running California into the ground, it's no wonder that the state is a complete and total hole. Please, please, please, Californians, vote the right way and get smart people like Steve Hilton who can articulate ideas into office. Please, I'm begging you.”
39:20· open transcript“ So you have cops with guns, and if you're not cooperating and going to get help, you're going to jail in Santa Ana. Same thing here. Instead, here, Karen Bass and Jim McDonnell are allowing a homeless woman. I mean, this is horrible. Dogs and cats and wire crates? Hitting the dogs, tying their mouth shut so nobody hears them bark? Wow.”
28:21· open transcript“ That's door number four. You go to jail, and the police, Santa Ana Police, City of Orange Police, CHP officers were joining together yesterday, and they do this once a month. I hadn't heard of this until she came out and did this video. And the reactions online are along, well, here's one. Why aren't you doing this, Karen Bass?”
28:43· open transcript