Interview with Ian MacKay (Frontline out takes)

Ian Magnus Mackay as a journalist for Independent Television News (ITN) and Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) describes differences between TV and newspaper reporting; the 'Five o'clock follies' and the questionable value of information given to the media by the United States (US) military; the Australian military role; objectivity and fatalism in a war zone; twenty four hours under siege at a US Special Forces camp at Du Co (?); coping with being under fire in a helicopter; coping with fear; the character of the ABC journalist Don Simmons; while on the Australian Army Vessel the Vernon Sturdee witnessing a large troop carrying helicopter being hit by fire and exploding in flight; personal effect of war zone experience; feeling depressed that the US and Australians were doing the fighting and not the South Vietnamese.