Place | Asia: Vietnam, South Vietnam, Saigon |
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Accession Number | F10556 |
Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 19 min 50 sec |
Object type | Interview |
Physical description | 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound |
Maker |
Stone, Gerald Louis Bradbury, David |
Date made | 1978 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1970-1979 Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
Interview with Gerald Stone (Frontline out takes)
Gerald Stone as a journalist for News Limited and television correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) describes why journalists enter a war zone; excitement of war as described by Associated Press photographer Horst Faust; veteran reporters are not cynics; 1965 bombing of the Mekong floating restaurant when Murray Wilmont photographed the casualties, justified as reporters doing the job; morals within journalism and other professions; reporting about the human condition; opinion of Neil Davis as a journalist and his surviving a mortar shell exploding in Cambodia; at the start of the war the reporters sent were police roundsmen; TV news editors portrayed a sanitised version of the war; living with the deaths of two cameramen he sent to Timor in 1975 when he was News Director; common rapport between soldiers in the field; wearisome debate on the impact of TV coverage of the war; objective reporting and personal bias; Vietnam as a starting point of subjective journalism; having no humorous recollections; humorous incident involving Hunter Mayo and Alan Ramsay fighting in a jeep; excitement of being in a war; women leaders would not end wars.
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