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Vanan Murugesan

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1531 total appearances

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The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And we don't really bucket our stories into Somali, Hmong, Hispanic.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

We do traditional beats, health care, education, social justice, police reforms.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

But if you're doing something like this, I mean, look, the whole philosophy.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

I mean, we've seen there was a good study by ProPublica earlier this week about the cases that the Department of Justice led by Pam Bodney has dropped and how many white collar cases are just being dropped left and right.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

Sorry.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

security and criminal justice and stuff like that.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And, you know, sometimes those stories relate to a Somali community more than an Amang community.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

Right.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And if you look at Donald Trump's pardons, anybody, anybody that is hit with massive fines that have basically been convicted and sentenced to go to prison for

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

As you can imagine, some of the fraud coverage that we were covering would center on a particular community.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So we don't necessarily cover them by community, but about topic issues.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

What one would call white collar crimes.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So financial crimes, if you will.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

It's almost universally an easy pardon for him.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

Now, one of the things that we've noticed is that

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

people are not jumping from let's say i'm a mong person i'm not necessarily going to jump to a hispanic main story or a mong story sorry a somali story and that's something that we're trying to work through right now um but for for the fact is that's one of the challenges that we have so we don't um we we try to cover things that matter to a particular community

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

I mean, I guess you can say he wants to do unto others as he wants to be treated.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And, you know, if he thinks financial crimes shouldn't be.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

punishable as felonies, then he's not going to let any of his friends see financial crimes punished as felonies here.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So the point is, is that, you know, it was amusing to me.