Fired ABC Journalist Has Surprising Epiphany About Media Bias

Former ABC News Senior Correspondent Terry Moran admitted in a July 29 Substack post that his previous employer is “almost inadvertently” a biased organization.

ABC News fired Moran in June over his tirade against White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, whom he accused of being a “world-class hater” in a now-deleted X post. Moran wrote on his personal Substack that ABC News has fallen into the trap of lacking “viewpoint diversity,” particularly when it came to Trump.

“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,” Moran wrote. (RELATED: Terry Moran Says Journalists Not Supposed To Be ‘Objective’)

Moran said that while ABC News made an effort to hire people from various backgrounds, there were hardly any staffers who supported Trump or understood his base. The lack of Trump supporters at ABC News inevitably caused “weirdly anthropological and inaccurate” reporting from ABC journalists who covered Trump or attended his rallies, Moran added.

“It is no secret. There are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks. 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,” Moran said.

“The old news divisions don’t hear many of the voices of the country, because those voices aren’t in the newsroom,” Moran continued. “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. You don’t really see a tiger at the zoo, just a version of a tiger.”