Articles written by Kate Butler

Hurricane Katrina's impact on the United States is evident 2 years later, but negative portrayal of African-Americans in the Superdome during this time still unexamined

Aug 30, 2007 - Kate Butler

International and national news stories are not covered by media in summer months because public is thought to desire lighter, less serious fare.

Aug 28, 2007 - Kate Butler

With three major records in baseball history achieved this week, the mainstream media's obsession with sport as a show, has once again been on display

Aug 8, 2007 - Kate Butler

Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan forever altered the world of media with his research and observations on how communication mediums affect those around them

Jul 31, 2007 - Kate Butler

The Democrats took a bold step forward by holding an online debate for 2008 candidates last week; this format will prove to be essential for future political discourse

Jul 31, 2007 - Kate Butler

U.K. news outlet apologizes to Royals after major gaffe regarding portrait sitting but BBC's continued relevancy may be somewhat dependent on relationship with monarch

Jul 13, 2007 - Kate Butler

Canada Day celebrations will occur all over the country on Sunday; the national identity of those who celebrate seems to still be very much up in the air

Jun 30, 2007 - Kate Butler

Foray into world of online social networking has mixed results for CBC, as political, social and cultural issues dominate discussion on wishes for the future.

Jun 29, 2007 - Kate Butler

Rupert Murdoch has shown himself to be a partisan, political media magnate who won't hesitate to use his papers to push his right-wing views; this is bad news for the WSJ

Jun 10, 2007 - Kate Butler

Wall Street Journal is important to the world of mass media in the United States and beyond because of much more than its acclaimed business and economic reporting.

Jun 5, 2007 - Kate Butler

Rupert Murdoch has changed the way that the world of mainstream journalism works, mainly due to his extensive influence on the papers & networks that he runs.

May 30, 2007 - Kate Butler

Mother's Day in the media is all about the tensions that exist between working mothers and stay-at-home moms: instead of celebrating women, the media highlights problems.

May 16, 2007 - Kate Butler

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney may have trouble winning media and widespread approval if he is not able to cast his faith in the Mormon religion positively.

May 16, 2007 - Kate Butler

When NBC received the video from the killer at Virginia Tech, there was undoubtedly a difficult decision for the broadcaster to make- hard to know what right choice was.

Apr 30, 2007 - Kate Butler

While opportunistic at times, Belinda Stronach has been an important figure on the Canadian political scene for the last three years, facing sexism on many occasions

Apr 17, 2007 - Kate Butler

Major news networks covered the murders at Virginia Tech as if they were covering a major policy announcement or celebrity news story, rather than the trajedy it is

Apr 17, 2007 - Kate Butler

Long-predicted to not survive in an age of internet freedom, magazines of all genres continue to be popular and well-read, even those of the news/politics persuasion

Mar 27, 2007 - Kate Butler

Problems of authenticity and reliability will not plague Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger's new online encyclopedia due to increased diligence

Mar 27, 2007 - Kate Butler

Using famous individuals to write a piece for the op-ed section has become commonplace in newspapers as the public has a particular interest in opinions of the stars.

Mar 19, 2007 - Kate Butler

The mass media has always been interested in public figures' sexuality; this is clearly evidenced in the case of Quebec Canada politician Andre Boisclair.

Mar 7, 2007 - Kate Butler

The gendered nature of anti-poverty activism makes the coverage of women in poverty campaigns an important issue at play.

Feb 24, 2007 - Kate Butler

Poverty is shown to be an issue for new immigrants and minorities in the United States and Canada due to mainstream media coverage of those on welfare & the working poor.

Feb 19, 2007 - Kate Butler

Women living on welfare are represented as being misfortunate, feckless or young by the mainstream media in an effort to further distance them from middle-class readers.

Feb 7, 2007 - Kate Butler

The mainstream media presents those who live in poverty as being inherently different from the rest of society by creating artificial divisions and dissimilarities

Feb 3, 2007 - Kate Butler

The trial of Robert Pickton, accused of killing 26 women from Vancouver East side opened in suburban Vancouver yesterday morning with the media there in full force

Jan 23, 2007 - Kate Butler

2006 saw many changes and shifts in terms of stories covered, actions taken, and expectations about the mainstream media.

Jan 5, 2007 - Kate Butler

What will 2007 look like in the news? Here are some guesses as to what the next year in the mainstream media might look like...

Jan 5, 2007 - Kate Butler

Mainstream media outlets love to produce annual lists of the best and the worst of the previous year: whether these lists are valuable to readers and viewers is debatable

Dec 29, 2006 - Kate Butler

The media is at the forefront of the drive to give at this time of year, but do not press their communities to continue this giving year-round.

Dec 18, 2006 - Kate Butler

Giving Quebec status as a nation within Canada is a controversial move that deserves much attention from the public; media outlets are ensuring that this debate happens.

Nov 27, 2006 - Kate Butler

Major news networks have depended on having one news anchor as the public face of their organization for the last half-century, but this tradition might be changing.

Nov 18, 2006 - Kate Butler

The mass media plays an important part of the political process and this is very evident when we look at what happened on election day in the United States.

Nov 10, 2006 - Kate Butler

The U.S. mid-term elections are next week and the media has been at the forefront of speculations that Republican-dominated culture in Washington is about to change.

Nov 3, 2006 - Kate Butler

Online versions of popular newspapers and news stations are successfully connecting readers to columnists through discussion forums on the internet.

Oct 27, 2006 - Kate Butler

The Globe and Mail-CTV poll released Wednesday is the most recent example of just how pervasive the use of the polling method has become in our mainstream news media.

Oct 20, 2006 - Kate Butler

The mainstream media raised some terrifying possibilities this week regarding North Korea's nuclear test, but did not ask these same questions of current nuclear powers

Oct 13, 2006 - Kate Butler