SHORT TAKES : Cosby Claims Media Vendetta
<i> From Times Wire Services</i>
Comedian Bill Cosby isn’t laughing about what he perceives as a media vendetta against him.
“I don’t understand why people are picking on me, and that’s essentially what this stuff is,” the entertainer said about media coverage after “The Cosby Show” dropped a mural from the NBC-TV series’ opening credits.
A Harlem teacher protested the use of her students’ artwork as a backdrop so Cosby eliminated the offending opening credits using the background. Cosby complains the dispute was slanted by the media to attack him personally.
“I’m very, very upset and I’m not going to take this kind of treatment. Celebrities are very, very easy to take a shot at,” Cosby told “A Current Affair.”