JOURNOS COWED BY GOVT SUITS Destroyed vehicles are seen as floodwaters recede in Chennai on December 6. Journalists in the city have welcomed their out-of-town competitors, fearful of being critical of the faulty relief efforts of the government of India’s Tamil Nadu state, which has filed more than 200 defamation cases against reporters and publications. AFP PHOTO
JOURNOS COWED BY GOVT SUITS
Destroyed vehicles are seen as floodwaters recede in Chennai on December 6. Journalists in the city have welcomed their out-of-town competitors, fearful of being critical of the faulty relief efforts of the government of India’s Tamil Nadu state, which has filed more than 200 defamation cases against reporters and publications. AFP PHOTO

NEW DELHI (Hindustan Times): Local reporters displayed a more-than-usual enthusiasm to help journalists from the outside, guiding them under heavy rain through waterlogged bylanes in the flood-ravaged Tamil Nadu capital to disaster zones where assistance was yet to reach.

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