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"Cosby" actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner blasts Bill Cosby media coverage
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner isn't defending his former co-star and mentor Bill Cosby but has little use for the media coverage surrounding him.
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"I think what was more difficult was to separate the headlines from the headlines. The media paints a certain picture that if you don't do due diligence and actually spend time looking through the stories that are being told, you are just going on what you're being spoon-fed," he said during an interview with Extra. "I'm neither defending him nor throwing him under the bus, I'm looking at the media's role and how the media forms public opinion."
The case against Cosby, who is
charged in a 12-year-old sexual assault
, can proceed, a judge ruled recently. Cosby’s lawyers had argued that he had been granted immunity years ago.
“The case now moves to a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try the 78-year-old Cosby on charges he drugged and violated former Temple University athletic department employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004,”
the Associated Press reports
. Cosby faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
As the legal proceedings unfold, Cosby continues to face recriminations in the court of public opinion. He recently was stripped of another honorary degree,
this time from George Washington University.
He already was
stripped of the honorary degree
bestowed upon him by Boston University and Atlanta’s Spelman College moved to distance itself from the comedian, actor and celebrity pitchman. The school announced it would
end a professorship tied to Cosby and return the money
.
Warner visited Extra to discuss his role as Al Cowlings in "American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson" but naturally Cosby became a topic of conversation.
“We’ve always had a good relationship," he told Extra. "He's always been wonderful to me and he's been really wonderful to a lot of people…It's not a good situation for anybody for him, his family or the women and their families, it’s just a bad situation all around.”
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