Enablers of a war: the American press and Vietnam, 1954-1960
Journal: CSUN ScholarWorks (California State University, Northridge)
Year: 2015

Previous historical studies of the Vietnam War have examined thoroughly the American news media???s opposition to the conflict. This thesis, however, will reveal how at first the American press acted as a promoter of U.S. intervention in Vietnam from 1954 to 1960. Operating under the ???can-do spirit??? of the era, journalists believed that the United States could succeed in creating an anticommunist state in Vietnam where the French had failed. Convinced of South Vietnam???s centrality in the g