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The q media panel unspins the federal budget

The q media panel weighs in on the big media stories of the week, including the federal budget and Desmond Cole's troubling Toronto Life cover story.
Finance Minister Joe Oliver takes part in a TV interview after tabling the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 21, 2015. A near doubling of the contribution limit on tax-free savings accounts was one of the most talked-about parts of the budget. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

This week's q media panel — Desmond Cole, Lise Ravary and Andrew Potter — reflects on the most significant news events of the week, and how effectively they were covered by mainstream media.

At issue this week: (1) the strong reaction to Cole's first-person article about how he experience racism in Toronto (2) the federal budget announcement and whether it's largely become a public relations stunt, and (3) what it means when Pulitzer prize winning journalists quit the profession for PR gigs.

He's been stopped over 50 times. One of our q media panelists explains why his article on police "carding" needed to be in the first person. (Fabiola Carletti/CBC)