I'll be on 790-KABC's "The John Phillips Show" this afternoon
As stunningly awful as Eric Garcetti and Antonio Villaraigosa were as mayors of Los Angeles, the city — and much of Southern California — has never been more of a national embarrassment than it is right now under their successor Karen Bass.
Bass grinningly denies her culpability and dishonesty before, during and after The Great Los Angeles Inferno despite what her own social media and a slew of City Hall communications prove.
The Marqueece Harris-Dawson-led Los Angeles City Council censors the public worse than any of his predecessors; has staffers physically attacking journalists, plural; and literally choreographed the outcome of the Tuesday appeal of fired LAFD chief Kristin Crowley.
Meanwhile, the mainstream news media inaccurately suggests that Crowley lost her appeal by a 13-2 vote, when no actual vote on her appeal was taken.
Crowley, who should have been fired years ago after my exposés, refuses to address lesser-known public safety dishonesty at LAFD, and crimes within its ranks that were covered-up by the Los Angeles Police Department, which itself is more rigged and untrustworthy than ever.
Luckily, the Daily Mail recently picked up on some of my earlier reporting while the LA Times keeps choking on its lies-by-omission.
And finally, the LA City Attorney has time and resources — no it doesn’t — to criminally prosecute a guy who built LA’s coolest tree house despite one of City Hall’s own agencies refusing to issue a formal response for a permit waiver.
I will discuss this or anything else on the minds of John Phillips and Randy Wang today at 1pm on 790-KABC’s “The John Phillips Show,” which is one of the few reliably transparent refuges of truth and transparency in Southern California, which airs from 12pm to 3pm each weekday. They’ll not only learn ya a few things, I guarantee that they will make you laugh, too.
Catch us live on the radio, on the iHeart app or later when the hit is posted to their podcast library. And don’t forget to catch “News Blitz with Randy Wang” during the afternoon drive.
Caffeine. Get me caffeine.
(Daniel Guss, MBA, won the LA Press Club’s “Online Journalist of the Year” and “Best Activism Journalism” awards in June ‘23. In June ‘24, he won its “Best Commentary, Non-Political” award. He has contributed to the Daily Mail, CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW 89.9 FM, KRLA 870 AM, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star-News, Los Angeles Downtown News and the Los Angeles Times in its sports, opinion, entertainment and Sunday Magazine sections among other publishers.)