The way in which a certain issue is presented to us heavily affects the way we think and make decisions. Since we are constantly surrounded by mass media, we may become victims of propaganda. The media can present social issues in different ways and therefore shape public opinion with different propagandist techniques. The aim of this research was to examine the framing effect, i.e. how changes of headlines and key words in newspaper articles affect examinee’s attitudes towards migrants in the context of European migrant crisis. High school seniors, more precisely 102 students from Gimnazija Karlovac, 78 female and 24 male, took part in this research. The results show that the examinees who read a positively framed article showed more positive attitudes towards migrants in the second examination and the examinees who read a negatively framed article showed more negative attitudes towards migrants. Also, examinees who scored higher on right-wing authoritarianism showed more negative attitudes towards migrants. These results indicate the importance of media influence and a lack of public criticism towards the media. Possible factors that caused changes in attitudes were the perception of threat, targeting the emotions, moral categorization, social desirability and previous subjugation to the presentation of similar content.