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.