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Jim Revitt as a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio News and Television News and Radio Australia describes being the only ABC reporter in South Vietnam; utilising Visnews cameramen; Neil Davis as one of the greatest cameramen and correspondents of the Vietnam war; task of reporting in South Vietnam; lack of ABC resources; ABC policies guiding reporters and talks [current affairs] department; no in-depth interpretive reporting carried out; ABC policy of reporting singular events, without context; frustration of not being able to report the progress of the war; how Australian public opinion would have been more informed by interpretive reporting; lack of management awareness; most feedback came from his parents; hope for future war reporting, futility of war; ABC policy change toward the end of the war, and lack of ABC equipment in Saigon.
Jim Revitt as a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio News and Television News and Radio Australia describes being the only ABC reporter in South Vietnam; utilising Visnews cameramen; Neil Davis as one of the greatest cameramen and correspondents of the Vietnam war; task of reporting in South Vietnam; lack of ABC resources; ABC policies guiding reporters and talks [current affairs] department; no in-depth interpretive reporting carried out; ABC policy of reporting singular events, without context; frustration of not being able to report the progress of the war; how Australian public opinion would have been more informed by interpretive reporting; lack of management awareness; most feedback came from his parents; hope for future war reporting, futility of war; ABC policy change toward the end of the war, and lack of ABC equipment in Saigon.
![[A Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment Vietnam May 1966-April 1967] / Ian Dadd](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i72OguqknEI/mqdefault.jpg "[A Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment Vietnam May 1966-April 1967] / Ian Dadd
[A Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment Vietnam May 1966-April 1967] / Ian Dadd")
