Bill Cosby, an American comedian, actor and producer. During his career Bill played a major role in the development of more positive portrayal of African-Americans on television. For example, shows such as The Cosby Show, and Fat Albert gave a broad look into his career. Bill was always referred to as a family man, who would do no harm to another. Unfortunately, this is not a happy ending like most of Bill Cosby’s shows. In fact, allegations of rape surfaced when multiple women spoke out on being drugged, and sexually assaulted.

Though this was not the turnout in the beginning, these stories were brushed off and received very little coverage in mainstream media. At the time, the story lacked credibility or proof. It was only when the accusations began to unfold when multiple women shared similar stories of their time with Bill. According to the three articles posted all ask the same question, why won’t journalists ask Bill the hard questions? Why are we only hearing about this now? In many sexual assault or rape cases, it mostly comes to the authenticity of the testimonies provided by the victims to the contrary of the accused. However, in Cosby’s case, most of the accusations were from years before.

In the past, Cosby faced incidents as a victim of extortion by a former mistress and her daughter. The mistress claimed the daughter is his, however paternity said different. Therefore news organizations and talk shows faced challenges on how to approach this, and eventually turned a blind eye to not claim what can be necessarily true. It is the news media duty to provide a balanced side of facts, and this was not done properly.