--- description: The New York Daily News isn't letting 78-year-old actor and comedian Bill Cosby off easy title: See the Daily News' Powerful Bill Cosby Cover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta751394d03c48199/69887740a988ca396d6b5ed0/daily-news-cosby-cover.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See the Daily News' Powerful Bill Cosby Cover  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Dec 31, 2015 2:55 PM CUT  NEW YORK DAILY NEWS  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Dec 31, 2015 2:55 PM CUT Bill Cosby was [charged with sexual assault](http://time.com/4164548/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-charges/?xid=homepage "undefined") on Wednesday—and the New York _Daily News_ responded with a compelling cover on Thursday morning. The 78-year-old actor and comedian was charged in a 2004 incident in which authorities say a woman was drugged and could not offer consent, the first time he faces criminal charges after dozens of women have come forward to accuse him of drugging and sexually assaulting them. The _Daily News_ cover takes the phrase “he said, she said” and applies it to the Cosby situation, writing “she said” more than 50 times, one for each of his female accusers. The statute of limitations on many of the allegations against Cosby has long passed, and this week’s new charges in Pennsylvania come just days before they were set to expire. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/"},"headline":"See the Daily News' Powerful Bill Cosby Cover","datePublished":"2015-12-31T14:55:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:42:35.266Z","description":"The covers comes as the comedian was charged with assault","url":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta751394d03c48199/69887740a988ca396d6b5ed0/daily-news-cosby-cover.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta751394d03c48199/69887740a988ca396d6b5ed0/daily-news-cosby-cover.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"daily-news-cosby-cover","caption":"","creditText":"NEW YORK DAILY NEWS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/","name":"See the Daily News' Powerful Bill Cosby Cover"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Bill Cosby Charged With Sexual Assault","description":"Bill Cosby has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/tSCRNA1R/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-30T16:17:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tSCRNA1R.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/","duration":"PT1M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4164885/daily-news-cosby-cover/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```