Dateline Saigon (2016)

How does a nation slip into war DatelineSaigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists The New York Times David Halberstam the Associated Press Malcolm Browne Peter Arnett and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas and UPIs Neil Sheehan during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants When the government is telling the truth reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening Halberstam tells us But when the government doesnt tell the truth begins to twist the truth hide the truth then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important