Hands up I fell for fake news. That will teach me to believe every tweet and retweet from Donald Trump! What i wrote was:
The show Roseanne has been scrapped following some explicitly racist tweets by its star Roseanne Barr. ABC did the right thing. It has also pulled any re-runs of old shows. Perhaps that is a bit tough on other cast members who will lose royalties but there is a very strong case for it.
What is inexplicable as that instead ABC is showing re runs of the Cosby show starring a man just convicted of three counts of aggraved asaault, that is to say he is a sex offender. Only the statute of limitations saved him from more.
We can all accept that racism is unacceptable but when did rape become acceptable?
Maybe it is just that famous Democrats called Bill get a free pass on that in America today?
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In fact Cosby is also off air although it has taken a long time. The networks were a lot more forgiving of the old rapist. It goes to show that the best fake news is plausible. This was believable. It aslo begs the question of which shows of old will still be aired in a few years time. The day of 24 hours of Ellen re-runs is not far off.