Not only do they adamantly oppose it now, most lamestream media don't even call it "surveillance.' They refer to it as "spying," which sounds a bit more evil.
Actually, there is a bit of a difference. Surveillance is more general, the way Echelon was (or is). Spying targets someone or something more specifically, with an objective in mind.
Personally I consider domestic surveillance, on balance, to be more sinister than domestic spying.