Former ABC News anchor and senior national correspondent Terry Moran finally admitted that the network and those in what he called “old news networks” have a bias against President Donald Trump.
Moran, who was out at the network in June following his suspension over a late-night, anti-President Trump and Stephen Miller rant on X, recently wrote on his Substack about his network’s bias and how newsrooms like ABC lack a diversity of viewpoints.
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“Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say,” Moran wrote. “ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity.”
Moran pointed out that he joined ABC News in 1997. He said that at that time, the newsroom was run by white men, but over the last decade, the company made it a point to “hire and promote journalists from a much wider diversity of backgrounds and life experiences.” He said that made things a lot more interesting, but admitted that with all this change, one thing that didn’t change was the viewpoint, as they continued to hire people who thought the same as them--people who didn’t support Trump.
“But there was one way ABC did not change and did not diversify. It is no secret. There are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News—or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks,” the ex-anchor wrote. “And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias (that’s the cartoon version peddled by Trump, Brendan Carr, and online MAGA), but more out of what is a kind of deafness.”
“The old news divisions don’t hear many of the voices of the country, because those voices aren’t in the newsroom,” he added. “Yes, news teams go out with a microphone and a camera and accost people at Trump rallies; but to me that often comes off as weirdly anthropological and inaccurate, kind of like trying to understand nature by visiting a zoo.”
“Now, this might sound strange coming from me. The manner of my…accelerated…departure from ABC News has earned me a reputation in many quarters as a raging, anti-Trump firebrand,” Moran continued. “So be it. I don’t take back or regret a syllable of the post I wrote about Stephen Miller and Donald Trump that got me fired by ABC … But inside the newsroom, I had a reputation of trying to get colleagues to see the other side, to walk a mile in the shoes of MAGA, to acknowledge the democratic forces that have made Donald Trump the dominant political figure of our time. So, yes, from my perspective, the old news networks are biased.”
As RedState reported in June, Moran was out at the network after he learned there would be consequences when he showed he couldn't be impartial when he went after Trump and Miller, calling them "world-class haters”:
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"Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater," Moran wrote in the now-deleted post. "You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate."
"Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only [sic] a means to an end, and that end his[sic] his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment," Moran continued.
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Initially, Moran was suspended. A short time later, an ABC News spokesperson released a statement that read, "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post — which was a clear violation of ABC News policies — we have made the decision not to renew."
"At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism," the statement added.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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