Former ABC News Reporter Admits that the Network Has a Liberal Bias

Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran acknowledged last week that the network has a left-leaning bias, attributing the issue to an overarching absence of ideological diversity within mainstream media institutions. Speaking on “The Fifth Column” podcast hosted by Michael C. Moynihan and Matt Welch, Moran was asked directly if ABC News is a liberal institution. He confirmed that it is, noting that a central difficulty in the network’s reporting on Donald Trump stemmed from a newsroom where essentially no staff members had actually voted for him.

Moran explained that during his tenure, he made active efforts to push back against the dominant political monoculture by sending internal emails encouraging colleagues to maintain fairness in their coverage of Trump. According to Moran, these efforts were quietly appreciated by select staff members, including broadcast engineers and the occasional producer, who privately thanked him for advocating balance. Welch noted that those same producers and engineers often didn’t share the same political beliefs of their newsroom colleagues creating a schism at the network. An anonymous ABC News insider later confirmed to Fox News Digital that Moran frequently clashed with liberal co-workers over political reporting standards, even though Moran is not conservative and his eventual exit was ultimately triggered by a separate incident.

The network ultimately chose not to renew Moran’s contract after he authored a social media post calling Trump and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller “world-class haters”, which was a bridge too far for the network. While there is no doubt that the Trump Administration spews a lot of vitriol at the media and its political opponents it isn’t the job of a supposed “impartial” reporter to voice such strong opinions. ABC News issued a public statement confirming the non-renewal, citing a clear breach of corporate standards. The network emphasized its commitment to journalism anchored in objectivity, fairness, and professional neutrality. Speaking off the record, an internal source noted that management felt compelled to act swiftly to prevent the post from further eroding public trust in traditional media outlets. While colleagues expressed personal sorrow over the end of his long career at the network, many acknowledged that the public statement left leadership with little choice but to let his contract expire after 28 years at the network.

Moran for his part continues to defend his reporting saying he was “excruciatingly fair” during his time at ABC, but the fact remains that the major media institutions still have an overwhelmingly liberal bias though that is being eroded by the rise of conservative media networks and websites.

This article was written with the assistance of Google Gemini.