A former correspondent with ABC News called out his former employers as not very objective when it comes to President Donald Trump.
Terry Moran said the network was biased due to the liberal mindset in the newsroom, per a Fox News report.
Moran’s tenure at the network spanned 28 years. He was fired in June after he attacked Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller on social media.
“Let’s talk about bias. I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I’m proud to say that,” Moran wrote on Substack, a social media platform he is now a part of, Tuesday.
“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,” he said.
Moran said when he joined the network, it was run by “White men.”
Through the years it did try to diversify.
“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,” Moran wrote.
“And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias… but more out of what is a kind of deafness,” Moran added. “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.”
Moran acknowledged the irony of being fired for talking out against Trump in a newsroom culture what does not like him.
“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,” Moran wrote. “So, yes, from my perspective, the old news networks are biased.”
Moran was fired in June after he called Trump and Miller “world-class” haters.
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile.”
“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater,” Moran wrote. “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”
Moran called Trump a “world-class hater” and added that “his hatred [is] only a means to an end, and that end [is] his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
