This book explores the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance.

Douglas M. McLeod is the Evjue Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research centers on communication content and effects, focusing on social conflicts and the mass media as well as framing and priming effects on attitudes and behaviors.

Part I. Conceptual Framework: Introduction: news, national security, and civil liberties; 1. Understanding message framing and effects; 2. Framing surveillance and the war on terror; Part II. Framing Effects Research: 3. Designing the studies with Lucy Atkinson, Seungahn Nah and Hyunseo Hwang; 4. Converging cues and the spread of activation with Jaeho Cho and Homero Gil de Zuniga; 5. Cognitive complexity and attitude structure with Hyunseo Hwang, Jaeho Cho, Seungahn Nah and Nam-Jin Lee; 6. Security concerns and tolerance judgments with Heejo Keum and Hernando Rojas; 7. Group perceptions and expressive action with Michael G. Schmierbach, Michael P. Boyle and Cory L. Armstrong; Part III. Implications and Conclusions: 8. Covering 'Big Brother'; Appendixes.