Keywords
USA Patriot Act, media, public opinion, 9/11
Abstract
This Essay offers an examination of the legal provision of the USA Patriot Act. It then looks at the distinct shift in U.S. media reporting on this legislation over time, and in-depth public opinion findings on people's mixed views of post-9/11 civil liberties. This Essay concludes that media coverage of events is best accompanied by tracking polls, to chart how much and why the U.S. public is coalescing or further dividing on issues of individual liberties during crisis.
Recommended Citation
Lisa Finnegan Abdolian and Harold Takooshian,
The USA Patriot Act: Civil Liberties, the Media, and Public Opinion,
30 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1429
(2003).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol30/iss4/4