Terry Moran, former correspondent with ABC News, confessed this week that the network is definitely “biased” against President Donald Trump due to the newsroom not having enough viewpoint diversity. Basically, the newsroom is just a big echo chamber with everyone agreeing on most of the major issues from a left-wing perspective with no one around to challenge or provide a counterpoint.
Moran, a 28-year veteran of ABC News, was given the boot earlier in the summer after launching into a vicious attack on President Trump and his White House aide Stephen Miller on social media. Moran is now offering his commentary on current events and political issues through Substack.
One of his pieces dealt with what CBS News’ future might look like after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stated that incoming ownership would put in place policies to “root out the bias” during a conversation last week about a long-planned merger.
“Let’s talk about bias. I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I’m proud to say that,” Moran said in his post on Substack published 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.”
Moran went on to say that when he first started with the network, it was controlled by “white men.” However, over the years, the Disney owned company made changes to the organization to increase diversity on its workforce “for the better.”
Since when has forced diversity ever been a good thing? It’s not. And it only works when the criteria for a hire is not based on their skin color (and this includes white folk) but on their skills, talents, and capabilities. If a black man is the best fit for the job, then he should get it. If it’s an Asian man, he should get it. I think you see where I’m going with this.
“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 said.
“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 later in the piece. “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.”
He then said it might “sound stranger” coming from an individual who got fired for an anti-Trump rant, but he revealed he often played devil’s advocate to the president’s critics within the organization.
“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 explained. “So, yes, from my perspective, the old news networks are biased.”
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