Terry Moran Complains Disney Won’t Let Pundits Trash Trump Harder

Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran complained on “In Good Faith with Philip DeFranco” Thursday that corporate media has restrictions preventing them from being even more biased against President Donald Trump.

ABC News fired Moran in June due to his rant against White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, whom he claimed was a “world-class hater” in a now-deleted X post. He claimed on the podcast that pundits can only show their disapproval of Trump’s actions through “their tone” due to “corporate pressure.” (RELATED: ‘It Was Embarrassing’: Sean Spicer Goes Off On Media For ‘Disgusting’ Coverage Of Army Parade)

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“I think that the business that I was in for all those years — network news, corporate media, legacy media, whatever you want to call it — is failing the American people. And they have corporate pressure on them,” Moran said. “And they have kind of rules of what they can say and what they can’t say, what they can describe and what they can’t describe. The facts in front of them are eluding their coverage. And I think that they are disserving the American people.”

“I know that there’s frustration there. I know that people look at what they’re doing and they’re like, ‘This is not enough.’ They try to put it in their tone sometime as they read their piece or they speak to camera, but they can’t say the words of what’s happening,” he continued. “And that’s corporate pressure.”

Moran added that corporations like Disney, which owns ABC, are desperate to avoid issues with Trump.

“Look, Disney, I mean, is a multi-kabillion dollar business, right? ABC News is a little tiny speck in that giant empire. The last thing that the head of Disney or anybody in these corporate offices wants is a problem with the president of the United States because somebody in the news division tweeted something,” he said. “I mean, there’s absolutely no upside to that. And so the pressure is on — very much so.”

In the aftermath of his firing, Moran said on “The Bulwark” in June that journalists do not have a duty to aim for impartiality in their coverage.

“My own feeling is you don’t sacrifice your citizenship as a journalis[t]. And your job is not to be objective,” Moran said. “There is no Mount Olympus of objectivity where a Mandarin class of wise people have no feelings about what happens in their society. We’re all in this together. What you have to be is fair and accurate.”

An ABC spokesperson told CNN’s Brian Stelter that Moran’s X post blatantly breached ABC News’ policies. The spokesperson noted the outlet mandated “the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism” for its reporters.

Moran also acknowledged in a July 29 Substack piece that ABC News was a “biased” organization.

“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.”

“It is no secret. There are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks,” he added. “And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias … but more out of what is a kind of deafness.”

ABC News paid $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit in December after “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed in March 2024 that Trump was found liable of rape.

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