“Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say,” Moran wrote. “ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity.”
Moran pointed out that he joined ABC News in 1997. He said that at that time, the newsroom was run by white men, but over the last decade, the company made it a point to “hire and promote journalists from a much wider diversity of backgrounds and life experiences.” He said that made things a lot more interesting, but admitted that with all this change, one thing that didn’t change was the viewpoint, as they continued to hire people who thought the same as them--people who didn’t support Trump.
“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—or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks,” the ex-anchor wrote. “And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias (that’s the cartoon version peddled by Trump, Brendan Carr, and online MAGA), but more out of what is a kind of deafness.”
[Source](https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/08/04/ousted-abc-anchor-finally-drops-pretense-of-legacy-medias-coverage-of-trump-n2192427)
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“Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I’d say,” Moran wrote. “ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity.”
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Moran pointed out that he joined ABC News in 1997. He said that at that time, the newsroom was run by white men, but over the last decade, the company made it a point to “hire and promote journalists from a much wider diversity of backgrounds and life experiences.” He said that made things a lot more interesting, but admitted that with all this change, one thing that didn’t change was the viewpoint, as they continued to hire people who thought the same as them--people who didn’t support Trump.
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“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—or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks,” the ex-anchor wrote. “And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias (that’s the cartoon version peddled by Trump, Brendan Carr, and online MAGA), but more out of what is a kind of deafness.”
