He’s won 29 Emmy Awards , and he’s pretty damn tired of the media’s false “bothsidesing” that normalizes President Donald Trump to the detriment of basic American principles.
He’s Bob Costas .
Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications awarded the legendary sportscaster its Fred Dressler Leadership Award Monday night, and Costas, always one to play it straight, used his acceptance speech to call out Trump ― and coverage of the president by ABC, CBS and CNN .
“The free press is under attack,” Costas said while accepting the lifetime achievement award. “Democracy as we know it is under attack.”
In December, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation suit over George Stephanopoulos’ saying Trump had been f