Vanan Murugesan

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

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

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

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.

Sorry.

security and criminal justice and stuff like that.

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

Right.

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

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

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

What one would call white collar crimes.

So financial crimes, if you will.

It's almost universally an easy pardon for him.

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

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

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

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

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

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