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&lt;p id=&quot;p_1&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TzFchVXJaC8&quot; width=&quot;690&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_2&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also read: Shame on you for ignoring Tamil Nadu floods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_3&quot;&gt;Dear national news channels, people keep writing open letters every now and then to you folks and you must be used to it now. I am from the city of Chennai - which is the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India. The moment I say Tamil Nadu please don't be mistaken that Chennai is in Sri Lanka, it's very much part of our country about 300km from Bangalore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_4&quot;&gt;Wanted to let you all know that it's been raining continuously for the last ten days and our local channels are mentioning that this rain is the highest recorded in 100 years. Several people have lost their lives and water is only flowing up to the neck level and hence it's really not serious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_5&quot;&gt;Read more &lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;color: #0000ff;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dailyo.in/politics/chennai-floods-rains-tamil-nadu-breaking-news-locals-stranded-all-flights-cancelled-aamir-khan-intolerance/story/1/7707.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

Media wasted time on intolerance instead of Chennai floods

We need to build a robust news-gathering machine by combining the local sources with the ones at the country level.