Ex-ABC News reporter Terry Moran admits network, traditional media biased against Trump: ‘A kind of deafness’

Disgraced former ABC News reporter Terry Moran admitted that his previous employer and other major news networks are biased against President Trump – accusing them of a “deafness” in the newsroom.

Moran revealed that there were hardly any pro-Trump journalists at ABC News in a recent post on his Substack channel, which has become his main outlet since getting fired in June following his social media tirade against White House adviser Stephen Miller.

“I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I’m proud to say that. 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,” Moran wrote in a Substack post last week.

“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.”

Since joining ABC News in 1997, Moran said the network hired and promoted journalists from a wider array of backgrounds. But it did not diversify when it came to hiring pro-Trump voices, which is “bound to impact coverage” from “what is a kind of deafness,” the longtime journalist wrote.

“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.”

Despite his apparent call for more pro-Trump journalists at major news networks, Moran took aim at the Trump administration’s recent approval of a multi-billion dollar Paramount-Skydance merger – adding that FCC Chair Brendan Carr “can go to hell.”

The FCC greenlit the deal after it was stuck in limbo for more than a year following Skydance’s promise to appoint an ombudsman to track media bias at CBS News once it completes its takeover of parent company Paramount.

Moran argued that the government should not be policing the editorial content of news coverage, likening the deal to Viktor Orban’s Hungary, the Law and Justice Party’s Poland and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

“The goal is de facto state control of national media narratives,” Moran wrote.

“It will be done by lawyers, zealots and toadies. Like Brendan Carr, who’s all three.”

The FCC did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Moran also doubled down on his comments about Stephen Miller earlier this year, calling him a “world-class hater” who operates not on “brains” but “bile,” which led to his suspension and eventual firing from ABC News.

“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,” Moran wrote.