Bob Costas has a chilling warning for the future of journalism.
On Monday, while accepting a lifetime achievement Mirror Award at a ceremony at the Edison Ballroom in New York (via CNN), the storied sports caster warned the audience of “ongoing assaults” on free press by the Trump administration, adding that “democracy as we know it” is “under attack.”
“What’s happening now are not matters of small degree,” Costas said. “They’re different in kind to anything certainly in my lifetime and maybe in the history of the American presidency.”
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