This is such a shame. Journalists are supposed to be ethical in their reporting, but Bill Cosby‘s biographer Mark Whitaker (who is also a journalist) did the exact opposite.
Whitaker penned a biography about the comedian titled, Cosby: His Life and Times, and failed to mention any of the sexual assault allegations that Bill went through in the past.
[ Related: Another Alleged Victim Of Bill Cosby Comes Forward ]
It wasn’t until he was called out in a piece by fellow journalist, David Carr, that he decided to speak up.
David wrote:
“Those in the know included Mark Whitaker, who did not find room in his almost-500-page biography, Cosby: His Life and Times, to address the accusations that Mr. Cosby had assaulted numerous women, at least four of whom had spoken on the record and by name in the past about what they say Mr. Cosby did to them.”
After being named in the telling post, Mark took to Twitter to respond to what David had written.
He surprisingly agreed to everything:
@carr2n David you are right. I was wrong to not deal with the sexual assault charges against Cosby and pursue them more aggressively.
— Mark Whitaker (@Marktwhitaker) November 24, 2014
@carr2n I am following new developments and will address them at the appropriate time. If true the stories are shocking and horrible.
— Mark Whitaker (@Marktwhitaker) November 24, 2014
We do wonder why Mark decided to turn a blind eye to the rape allegations that haunted Bill in the past.
But now that he’s acknowledging it, maybe he’ll go back to this office and pen a follow up to the already published book…
[Image via HRC/Daniel Tanner/WENN.]
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