Interview with Mike Carlton (Frontline out takes)

Mike Carlton as a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) describes his first impressions of South Vietnam in 1966 and 1970; censorship and objectivity within the ABC; effect of TV on public opinion, quoting the North Vietnamese Defence Minister; ABC didn't interpret the political situation; his depression caused by the invasion of Cambodia; Air Vice Marshall Ky and the mortar misfire at Nui Dat; armed Vietnamese officer threatens him in a bar; reading danger signs in a war zone; impression of Neil Davis; risks for a cameraman and soundman compared to a journalist; assisting the injured, and racial tendencies; switching off emotions toward suffering to avoid going mad; worst thing was waiting for something to happen; Neil Davis in Indonesia; brutality and human instinct; scale of the war, attitude of soldiers and journalists.