In a statement by ABC News’s public relations department and shared with CNN’s Brian Stelter, the Disney-owned liberal network revealed Tuesday they fired longtime correspondent Terry Moran, less than a week after having been suspended for a late-night tweet smearing longtime Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller as “a world-class hater” whose “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.”
Stelter broke the news right at 5:00 p.m. Eastern:
Stelter added in a follow-up tweet that ABC also told him “we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.”
Cue the laugh tracks for the absurdity of that statement. While Moran’s axing is something few could have expected if this had occurred, say, eight years ago, it does nothing to change their reputation of weapons-grade liberal bias.
In the time since Moran’s suspension Sunday morning, ABC’s liberal bias hasn’t relented one bit, most notably blaming President Trump for the Los Angeles riots.
Maybe now that Moran is gone he can have time to look back fondly on his 27-year career at ABC News, which included nearly every possible title: ABC News Live anchor, chief foreign correspondent, Nightline co-anchor, senior national correspondent, World News Tonight Sunday anchor, White House correspondent.
And, at one point or another since 1998, Moran has helped lead ABC’s coverage of the Supreme Court, often their voice weighing in with joy (such as after the Obergefell decision or ObamaCare case) or rage at rulings. That also extended into actively working to sink a few of their nominations.
Whether it was calling Donald Trump a “führer” or declaring “women will die” after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade or fawning over Barack Obama as someone who’d have to “step down into the Oval Office,” or declaring the 2024 Democratic National Convention “the best party I’ve been to in awhile,” Moran’s decades of bias have long been evident.
Originally published ahead of his trainwreck April 29 interview with President Trump, our Geoffrey Dickens compiled a few examples of Moran’s worst moments here.
And, for posterity, click here to read Moran’s bio at ABC News (which will soon be deleted if it hasn’t already).
Our Brent Baker went back and found what will go down as Moran’s final on-air moment with the network. Ever a committed liberal journalist, Moran’s last segment was an interview on ABC News Live with far-left New York Times columnist Charles Blow about Pride Month:
Someone should check on Mediaite’s Colby Hall, who kvetched about Moran’s tweet “having landed squarely in the middle of the culture war mosh pit, where such commentary is chum for partisan sharks desperate for engagement.”
Hall further complained ABC’s move to suspend him was a sign they’re “still clinging to the tattered flag of objectivity, trying to draw lines in an industry where the chalk keeps getting washed away” and “violating journalistic standards of objectivity” while those most outraged “have zero standards” and are “not journalists.”
Thus, in his world and those of media elites, only those whom are defined as card-carrying journalists or members of this or that club determine what is and is not a faux pas.
Stay tuned to NewsBusters for more on this developing story.
