Media and war: reflections on Vietnam: Nick Turner recalls his experience as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War.

From: New Zealand International Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Turner, Nick | Copyright information

My posting to Saigon was really an accident. After entering journalism on the Auckland Star at the age of 17, and then doing a stint with the New Zealand Press Association in Wellington, I had gone to London and joined the Reuters news agency with the aim of becoming a foreign correspondent. In due course, Reuters assigned me to its large Singapore bureau. But then there was a sudden change of plan, and I was sent instead to be the sole-charge correspondent in Saigon, a role for wh...

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