Sideshow: Celebrities react to Ferguson decision

Taking their role seriously as keepers of the nation's conscience, and their living power within us all as a moral compass, movie stars and musicians are tweeting up a storm in reaction to the civil unrest in the wake of the decision by a grand jury Monday night not to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Solange, recently wedded sis of Beyoncé, was honest: "I don't have anything 'insightful' to say right now. Just pain, and anger."

Pharrell opted for restraint and honesty. "I'm heartbroken over the news. . . . Let's all pray for peace," he tweeted.

Shonda Rhimes quoted the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Film director Spike Lee posted an image of a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Truth, Just-Us & the American Way. We Are Michael Brown."

Journos and biographers are coming out of the woodwork to apologize for not investigating sexual misconduct accusations made by several women against Bill Cosby over the years. Some go back decades.

The New York Times' David Carr calls journos, including himself, "media enablers."

Why, he asks, did it take so long for Cosby's alleged infamous behavior to see the light of day? "What took so long is that those in the know kept it mostly to themselves," he writes. "No one wanted to disturb the Natural Order of Things, which was that Mr. Cosby was beloved."

Former Newsweek editor in chief Mark Whitaker, whose book Cosby: His Life and Times came out two months ago, concurs.

"David you are right. I was wrong to not deal with the sexual assault charges against Cosby and pursue them more aggressively," Whitaker tweets.

Whitaker may have been intimidated, USA Today's Michael Wolff wrote shortly after the book was published: "Cosby is said to have made it clear to Whitaker and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, that he would sue on the slightest provocation."

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