Dateline: Saigon 2017
Dateline: Saigon
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
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Release Date:
Mar 07, 2017 (Germany,Iraq,Netherlands,United States,Viet Nam)
Run Time:
1hr 36`
MMPA Rating:
NR
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
Germany,Iraq,Netherlands,United States,Viet Nam
Status:
Released
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Dateline: Saigon
Directors & Credit Writers
TDH
Thomas D. Herman... Director
Cast
... Narrator (voice)
... Self
PA
Peter Arnett... Self
... Self
HF
Horst Faas... Self
... Self
... Self (archival footage)
Produced By
SG
Susan Grey... Associate Producer
TDH
Thomas D. Herman... Producer
RC
Randel Cole... Co-producer