My friends, Terry Moran just admitted something on a podcast that ABC News spent decades pretending wasn't true.

During a recent podcast interview, Moran was asked if ABC News is a liberal institution.

"Yes," he said. Then came the excuse. "I think, like a lot of mainstream media, it's because of a lack of viewpoint diversity."

Moran spent nearly 28 years at ABC, working alongside George Stephanopoulos, a former Democrat operative turned network anchor. And make no mistake: he’s acutely aware of what really goes on there.

Moran went on to say that nobody in ABC's newsroom voted for Trump. Shocking, I know.

He even said he sent internal emails arguing, "Hey, we should be fair to Trump." He claims a few engineers and behind-the-scenes workers thanked him for that.

It's quite telling that a major news outlet needed an internal email just to put fairness and objectivity on the radar.

Rush Limbaugh made the same point decades before Moran ever opened his mouth. Miss NBC Nightly News? No worries. Turn on ABC. Miss that? Flip on CBS. Didn't catch that either? Pick up the New York Times the next morning.

Doesn't matter. Same script. Same agenda. Just a different "journalist” — but in name and appearance only.

Remember the term "gravitas"? When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney as his running mate in 2000, every single network had anchors and guests using the same word, ad nauseam.

It was repeated hundreds of times, maybe more, over a couple of weeks. And then, just as quickly as the word appeared, it vanished from journalists’ lexicon once it had run its course in the narrative. And so far as I know, it really hasn't been used since.

That doesn't happen by accident, my friends. That's a talking point making its way into every news outlet's reporting.

Now watch how these same people treat members of each political party. When Kristen Welker interviews a Republican, it's a cross-examination. When journalists sit across from Kamala Harris or Barack Obama, it turns into pure reverence.

One journalist said she felt "in awe" just sitting for an interview with Kamala Harris. Chris Matthews famously said watching Obama speak sent a thrill up — or maybe it was down — his leg. David Brooks said he knew Obama would win the presidency because of the crease in his pants.

It’d be comical if they weren’t so serious about it, my friends.

And none of that is journalism. That's fandom with a press pass.

Moran wants you to believe this is all unintentional — that a newsroom full of people who think exactly alike just happens to produce coverage that always breaks one direction — every single time. I don't buy that for a second, and you shouldn't either.

But even if we take him at his word — even if it's completely unintentional — it's still a major problem. A newsroom where everyone shares one worldview isn't neutral when they believe it's their job to get everyone else to agree with their politics and worldview.

This creates a propaganda machine that operates under the guise of the First Amendment, and it's been deciding what counts as "the news" for your entire life.

The good news is that the jig is up for more and more Americans. They've seen behind the curtain. And they've heard enough confessions from people like Terry Moran.

The bad news is that the damage has been done, and it took decades for us to get here. The question now is: can we fix the problem? And if so, how?

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

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RedState — the article that lays out Terry Moran's own account of what happened to his 2021 COVID lab-leak story at ABC News, start to finish.

Fox News — Moran's fuller, on-the-record answer when asked point blank whether ABC is a liberal institution: "Yes."

Econ Journal Watch — the actual 2016 voter-registration study behind the numbers: a 20-to-1 Democrat-to-Republican ratio among journalism and communications faculty, and 60% of the departments studied with zero registered Republicans.

The American Journalist Study — the 2022 survey data behind the 3.4% of U.S. journalists who currently identify as Republican.

Terry Moran didn't just admit ABC's newsroom leans one direction. He also told a story that should bother you regardless of your politics or your position on COVID.

Back in early 2021, well before "lab leak" was an acceptable thing to say out loud in public or online, Moran pitched Nightline a story on the origins of COVID-19.

His team talked to molecular virologists. They talked to current and former Trump administration officials, including one who said the Wuhan lab in question had been funded in part by the Chinese military — despite China's denials.

Moran says his own honest conclusion, after all that reporting, was that a natural origin was still somewhat more likely. But he wasn't ready to completely rule out a lab leak either, and he said so plainly in his script.

Then came the day the program was set to air.

Moran says the piece came back from internal review "incomprehensible" — edited into something he no longer recognized. He was furious. Cursing-in-the-booth furious, by his own account.

Who changed it? According to Moran, network lawyers, the media standards department — and, he says he was told, Dr. Anthony Fauci himself.

Sit with that for a second. A sitting government health official — the very face of America's fight against COVID-19 — reportedly consulted on how an independent news network should frame a story about the origins of the virus.

We now know gain-of-function research was happening at that Wuhan lab, that Fauci's agency had ties to some of that funding, and that the lab-leak theory — once grounds for a social-media ban — is now treated by multiple U.S. government agencies as the most likely explanation for how the virus emerged.

Moran is far from a conservative, and he's not doing this to score points with people like me. ABC fired him in 2025 over social media posts attacking Trump and Stephen Miller — which means he has no institutional loyalty left to protect.

That's exactly what makes this admission worth your attention. When someone with nothing to gain from agreeing with you tells you the thing you've been saying for years, it's probably worth listening to — unless perhaps he’s pitching a book.

We were told the lab-leak theory was a conspiracy theory. Some of us got locked out of social media accounts for repeating it.

Meanwhile, the people managing the story from the inside weren't nearly as certain as they wanted the rest of us to be.

That's not a difference of opinion. That's a cover-up hiding behind the First Amendment.

This is the moment from today's show where I played Terry Moran describing what happened to his 2021 lab-leak story — how it came back from review unrecognizable, and who he says was involved in changing it.

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