Veteran reporter dropped by ABC News after 28 years proudly admits he and his network are biased

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Former ABC News reporter Terry Moran acknowledged that the network has no “viewpoint diversity” and showed it was “biased” against President Donald Trump.

Moran was dropped in June after nearly three decades with ABC News after a rant on social media attacking Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller. He wrote about his exit in a Substack piece titled “RIP, CBS,” in which he addressed the future of CBS News.

“Let’s talk about bias. I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I’m proud to say that,” Moran wrote. “But: Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say. ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity.”

“When I joined ABC News in 1997, it was basically run by white men. (I have nothing against white men; I am one.) That management structure lasted for a long time, way too long. But over the last decade or so, the company made an effort to hire and promote journalists from a much wider diversity of backgrounds and life experience,” he continued, adding that this “changed ABC News, for the better.”

“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,” Moran admitted.

“And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias… but more out of what is a kind of deafness,” he continued. “The old news divisions don’t hear many of the voices of the country, because those voices aren’t in the newsroom. 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. So be it,” Moran added. “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. I think it was an accurate, fair, and true description of those men.”

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However, he claimed that he played devil’s advocate in the newsroom, “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,” he added before returning to discussing CBS News and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

Moran has warned that the free press in America is in danger if Trump is not “stopped.”

Social media users weren’t buying what Moran was selling.

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