Ex-ABC News anchor Terry Moran mocked as he admits media is biased against Trump: 'Took him long enough'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Disgraced former ABC News reporter Terry Moran just admitted that mainstream media has a major blind spot when it comes to President Donald Trump and his MAGA base.

In a tell-all post on his Substack, Moran — who spent nearly three decades at ABC News before getting the boot this June — slammed the network and other big outlets for what he calls a serious case of “deafness” when it comes to understanding Trump supporters.

Terry Moran peels back the curtain on media's bias against Donald Trump

“I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I’m proud to say that,” Terry Moran wrote in his post last week. “A lot of good people do a lot of really good work there, and they try hard to get the story right. There were many days over the years when I’d watch a colleague at work, on-camera or behind the scenes, and I’d think: That’s how you do this.”

“But: Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say,” he confessed. “ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity.”

Moran, who joined ABC back in 1997, said the network made strides in hiring folks from different backgrounds — but not when it came to political perspectives. That, he says, made a major difference. “It’s bound to impact coverage,” he explained, blaming what he described as “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,” Moran wrote.

“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 added. “You don’t really see a tiger at the zoo, just a version of a tiger.”

Terry Moran sparks ridicule over admission regarding media bias

Terry Moran might’ve thought he was dropping some kind of newsroom bombshell, but social media wasn’t exactly handing him a Pulitzer. Instead, the former ABC News reporter was dragged for being way late to the party.

“Took him long enough to come clean with the truth....” one user snarked on X (formerly Twitter). Another chimed in, “It’s obvious and has been crystal clear for years.”

A person said, “Thank God that people are actually seeing the truth as it is. It's really what it is, some people are actually deaf and dumb when it comes to accepting the Truth.”

“Terry Moran calling out media bias is like Jake Tapper writing a book about Biden’s mental decline,” someone else quipped.

Another took aim at Moran’s tone, saying he still didn’t go far enough. “Not really amazing at all. He doesn’t give insight into the vile hatred and bias he and others have for Trump. He brushes it off as it is unintentional. He still lives in a bubble while those in the real world can see clearly MSM’s hatred for anything or anyone on the right," they wrote.

While sounding the alarm on the lack of pro-Trump voices in the press, Moran also torched the Trump administration for backing the Paramount-Skydance merger, recently greenlit by the FCC.

Specifically, the veteran journalist had some choice words for FCC chair Brendan Carr — who approved the deal after Skydance promised to bring in an ombudsman to monitor media bias at CBS News (which is a Paramount asset). “Brendan Carr can go to hell,” Moran raged.

He went a step further and said the whole thing smacked of authoritarianism. “The goal is de facto state control of national media narratives,” he warned. “It will be done by lawyers, zealots, and toadies. Like Brendan Carr, who’s all three," Moran said.

Terry Moran doesn't regret Stephen Miller post that got him fired

The Substack post also gave Terry Moran a chance to revisit the moment that torpedoed his ABC career — his public tirade against Stephen Miller, the Donald Trump loyalist known for his hardline immigration views who now serves as his deputy chief of staff. 

Earlier this year, Moran tore into Miller and called him a “world-class hater” who operates not on “brains” but “bile.” ABC subsequently put him on ice and eventually gave him the axe.

But Moran doesn't regret it one bit. “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,” he wrote defiantly. “I think it was an accurate, fair, and true description of those men.”

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