(LAST UPDATED 6/7). Slowly (very slowly at first) West Coast newspapers have offered commentary or coverage of Bill Cosby's controversial remarks to the NAACP in mid-May on self-responsibility for lower-income blacks. With two exceptions, noted below, the West Coast daily newspaper coverage of the Cosby controversy cited below has been exceedingly lame.

Here's what I've come across.

San Jose Mercury News columnist Joe Rodriguez proffers this accusatory, would-be takedown of Coz.

And the Seattle Times' Jerry Large has a worthy piece warning against "either-or" thinking (racism vs. black self-improvement).

The Oregonian, Portland's big daily, had this bare-bones transcript of some of Cosby's remarks, via the WaPo.

And 12 days after the event, The Tacoma News-Tribune offers this formulaic, decidely non-local AP reaction story.

Fifteen days afterward, the SF Chron ran this week-old rebuttal of Cosby's remarks from an NAACP official.

In the third week, a few more West Coast dailies chimed in. The Alameda News-Star and the Tacoma News-Tribune ran this same (and strong) syndicated piece on Cosby's message, by black conservative Star Parker.

The beginning of Week Four following Cosby's May 17 speech saw this excellent op-ed in The Seattle Times on the Cosby furor. It's by Oscar Eason, Jr., head of the NAACP State Conference (covering Oregon, Washington and Alaska). Note the link above, to the earlier Jerry Large piece in The SeaTimes.

FYI, Cosby reiterated his views in a speech at Stanford University, and also sat down to talk things over on Tavis Smiley's PBS television show. (Transcript here).

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 27, 2004 08:51 AM

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