- Title: Frontline: Vietnam
- Date: 27th June 1993
- Summary: This is the second episode in a new current affairs series with Julian Pettifer reassessing how the war in Vietnam was reported. Pettifer was a Vietnam correspondent in the late 1960s and early 1970s - but today he believes that the western media too readily portrayed the war as a colonial conflict rather than a civil war between Communist and Capitalist forces. Examining the economic damage which a decade of old-style central planning inflicted on southern Vietnam before recent market reforms, Pettifer reflects on why over four million people had to die to defeat Communism.
- Description:Julian Pettifer returns to Vietnam and judges that his,and his contemporaries' reporting of the war in Vietnam was in many ways misguided.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:MOSAIC PICTURES LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:27/06/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s