Bill Cosby said he expects “black media” to have a “neutral mind” when reporting on the many sexual-abuse allegations against him in a new interview published Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me say this. I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism, and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind,\u201d he told The New York Post<\/em>‘s “Page Six” section.<\/p>\n The comedian said his lawyers have advised him not to speak to media about the allegations made by more than 20 women.<\/p>\n “They don’t want me talking to the media,” Cosby said, before he abruptly ended the phone interview. Throughout the interview, however, “Page Six” reported that the comedian sounded “upbeat.”<\/p>\n Cosby has remained largely silent while the number of allegations against him continue to mount. Taken together, these women’s stories paint the comedian as a serial rapist, whose assaults allegedly spanned four decades dating back to the 1960s. Many of the women also claim that Cosby offered them drug pills prior to the alleged assaults.<\/p>\n Last month, the comedian briefly broke his silence on the allegations in an interview with Florida Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n “I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,” he said. “People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that, and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.”<\/p>\n Cosby also got into a tense post-interview discussion with a journalist from The Associated Press, after the reporter asked about the allegations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill Cosby said he expects “black media” to have a “neutral mind” when reporting on the many sexual-abuse allegations against him in a new interview published Sunday. \u201cLet me say this. I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism, and when you do that, you have to go in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":74088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-74087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}