 The hoped-for uprising never took place; indeed, the offensive drove some previously apathetic South Vietnamese to fight for the government.Another surprise for the communists was that the ARVN did not collapse under the onslaught, instead turning in a performance that pleased even its American patrons.After the Tet Offensive, influential news magazines and newspapers, including the "Wall Street Journal", "Time" and "The New York Times", increasingly began to characterize the war as a stalemate.