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News Frames And National Security: Covering Big Brother

By Douglas M. McLeod , Dhavan V. Shah

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0521113598, 9780521113595, 0521130557, 9780521130554, 1139022202, 9781139022200
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2975118 bytes)
Series
Communication, Society And Politics
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
237\237
Time added
2020-09-07 13:24:10
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Description

Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance - personifying the domestic threat - shapes citizens' judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support 'Big Brother'.

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