Bob Costas Slams Trump’s ‘Ongoing Assaults’ on Free Press

Bob Costas has a chilling warning for the way forward for journalism.

On Monday, whereas accepting a lifetime achievement Mirror Award at a ceremony on the Edison Ballroom in New York (by way of CNN), the storied sports activities caster warned the viewers of “ongoing assaults” on free press by the Trump administration, including that “democracy as we all know it” is “underneath assault.”

“What’s occurring now are usually not issues of small diploma,” Costas stated. “They’re completely different in sort to something actually in my lifetime and possibly within the historical past of the American presidency.”

Costas made it clear that the main information retailers are usually not “with out fault” and that “legacy or mainstream media” have their justifiable share of “blind spots” and “misplaced narratives.” He added, nevertheless, “if the reply to that’s MAGA media, if the reply to that’s Donald Trump’s view of the world, which is barely via a prism of what advantages him… I’ll keep the place we’re.”

He went on to say that through the top of his recognition, he would generally hear from followers, “‘I used to like Bob Costas, however then he turned political.’” Costas stated to those that share that sentiment, “You already know what, if that’s what you suppose and that’s the way you suppose and also you suppose it in protection of that man, I put on that as a badge of honor.”

Costas spent 40 years at NBC Sports activities, exiting the community in 2019. He stated that the trade “tragically” misses the mark on connecting the world of sports activities with vital social and political subjects.

Political points in sports activities, he added, “have to be lined, not through the sport, not in between pitches, or in between free throws, however in some unspecified time in the future have to be lined.”