Posted on 07/29/2025 1:48:52 AM PDT by Libloather
Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran worried Tuesday that the U.S. will soon lose its free press if President Donald Trump is not "stopped."
Moran, who was fired in June from the network where he worked for almost 28 years after posting a scathing social media rant against Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller, discussed the state of the media with former MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Substack.
Lamenting the recent CBS/Paramount settlement with Trump, and other media shakeups, Matthews worried about the implications of media outlets caving to the president’s demands.
"Is this going to keep going?" Matthews asked. "Or is he going to keep going from network to network, to newspaper to newspaper?… Are they willing to be what they’ve been or are they just going to keep groveling?"
Moran made a bold prediction that there will be no independent news in the U.S. because media organizations will have their power stripped from them by the current administration.
"I think they’re going to, at some point, get rid of the news divisions, is my prediction," he told Matthews. "It will either be stripped from them—look, unless Trump is stopped, there’s a playbook here. You see it in all the authoritarian countries."
"[Viktor] Orban did it, [Vladimir] Putin did it in Russia and the Law and Justice Party in Poland — they stripped the media, the news operations away from independent corporations that will stand up and they sell them to their cronies," he continued.
Moran then brought up the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigating ABC News over debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis's fact-checking of Trump during the 2024 presidential debate that he said favored his opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Confession through projection.
“[Viktor] Orban did it, [Vladimir] Putin did it in Russia and the Law and Justice Party in Poland — they stripped the media, the news operations away from independent corporations that will stand up and they sell them to their cronies,” he continued.”
She picks an INTERESTING set of countries and pretty much the only 3 countries in Europe that aren’t controlled by Brussels (and the Deep State). Is her REAL PROBLEM the fact that Leftists are mad because they only have 95% control of Europe, but demand 100% control? I tend to think so.
You mean like Soros who purchased a large number of media outlets in the waning days of the Biden Administration with the help of regulators who pushed it through?
If the press would just tell the truth, this wouldn’t be an issue.
General Sherman said it best:
“I hate newspapermen,” he once attested. “They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
They should be worried about being prosecuted for being co conspirators in sedition and treason instead of being bought out .
And this urinalist screen is proof they are.
Jmo
They misspelled his last name...it isn’t ‘Moran’ it is MORON! 😀
Fired for a TDS rant (and possibly slander) and he still can’t stop himself....
These people are truly delusional.
Moran=moron.
NOTHING has worked. Lawfare! Propaganda! Slander! Libel! An army of investigators, lawyers, and propaganda specialists! Election fraud! Even assassination!
Maybe St. Michael the Archangel is guiding and protecting him.
Maybe God's Truth is marching on.
Maybe our prayers have been answered, and the USA is to be saved from destruction.
Something is at work. Divine providence? Ever think about that?
The mental illness is beginning to emerge... the mental illness of, well, Trump Derangement Syndrome. But 'TDS' is just a symptom actually. The disease is a mass hysteria with traceable roots in the new Left wing radical campaign to persuade vulnerable people to embrace an alternate reality.
This alternate reality manifests in notable confusion. For example, a Supreme Court justice who claims to be unable to define a 'woman'; a male contender that dominates a woman's sporting event by declaring himself as actually a female in a male body; riotous building burning, automobile burning violence is obviously righteous peaceful protests; a military that redefines its mission as correcting social injustices, appoints generals that are 'diversity' experts; biological scientists that argue that men can have babies AND breastfeed -- should have tampons available in men's restrooms.
The list is nearly endless and has compelled otherwise intelligent people to begin accepting anomalous realities. As these opinion leaders begin to drift away from accepted norms, less influential followers find themselves questioning their own views of reality. Soon mental illness begins to manifest in the public forum; people scratch their heads asking what is happening.
Sadly, behind this anti social 'hysteria' is an intelligent entity with an ulterior motive. A radical core group of social nihilist schemers are attempting to destroy traditional social values with the goal of overturning the 'old' with their 'new' ideas - ideas that will prove destructive to the masses.
It is, for example, one primary operating principle of ambitious Marxist idealists.
Yeah, except... Trump can actually make it work!
(unlike the democrats who ruin everything they touch)
Moran belongs in an asylum, not in the media.
That could be the cause. He still could be a serial liar as well though. 😁👍
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act needs to be invoked against Big Media.
Bust them up just like the phone company.
Agreed ✔ The brothel media is full of these presstitutes! ❗
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