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Cosby Lawyer Says Comedian’s Comments ‘Continue to Be Misconstrued’

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NBC 121814 BillCosby?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1418960042772Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC(NEW YORK) — An attorney for Bill Cosby on Thursday criticized freelance journalist Stacy Brown on a Friday article in the New York Post in which Cosby’s comments “continue to be misconstrued in a way that can only call into question the fair-mindedness of certain commentators.”

In that article, Brown quoted Cosby as saying, “I only expect our black media to uphold the standards of excellent journalism…and when you do that, you go in with a neutral mind.” Cosby’s attorney, John P. Schmitt, said that Cosby “did not ask for special treatment from the African-American media.”

Instead, Schmitt says, “he asked that they adhere to journalistic standards and approach the story in a neutral manner — without a predisposition on either side of the story.” That expectation applies to all media, he noted.

Schmitt also noted the “mean-spirited and reckless rhetoric” spouted by MSNBC commentator and Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson. Dyson’s comments called Cosby’s request for neutrality the comedian’s “rape [of the] entire black community.”

Cosby has been accused by several women in recent weeks of sexual abuse. Earlier this month, a woman named Judy Huth sued Cosby, alleging he molested her in the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15 years old.

Last month, Cosby denied the allegations made against him through his attorney.


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