Terry Moran, a guy who spent nearly three decades inside ABC News, is confirming what the rest of America has seen for years: the newsroom is a bubble.
Not just any bubble — a progressive echo chamber where Trump voters are treated like exotic specimens to be poked and prodded for “understanding.”
Moran, who worked at ABC for 28 years before being shown the door this summer, wrote on his Substack that the network suffers from a glaring “lack of viewpoint diversity.” Translation? No one in the building understands (or even wants to understand) half the country.
“It is no secret,” Moran admitted. “There are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News.” That, he said, creates a “kind of deafness” in coverage. He compared the network’s approach to interviewing Trump voters to “trying to understand nature by visiting a zoo.” Ouch.
And this isn’t coming from a MAGA cheerleader — this is the same guy who once went on a tirade calling Trump adviser Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” who “eats his hate.” That meltdown got him fired. Yet here he is, sounding more like a media critic than a career network man, saying out loud that the “old news divisions” don’t hear America anymore.
Moran claims he tried to be the internal counterweight, pushing colleagues to “walk a mile in the shoes of MAGA” and recognize why Trump has been such a dominant political force. It didn’t work. Instead, ABC carried on as usual: moralizing to viewers, treating dissenting opinions like dangerous ideas, and congratulating themselves on their “objectivity.”
ABC, of course, didn’t respond to requests for comment — because why would they? That would require acknowledging the problem.
Moran’s confession only confirms what media watchdogs have been shouting for years: the legacy networks are so culturally and politically insulated that they can’t even see their own bias. They don’t just fail to cover half the country — they don’t even know how.
It’s rare when an insider admits this so bluntly. But if Moran’s right, it means something bigger: ABC News doesn’t just have a bias problem. It has a credibility crisis.
