As the saying goes “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”
Terry Moran, the ABC News reporter suspended Sunday for bashing a top Trump official, began his illustrious career in Bangor.
Moran first went in front of a TV camera in the mid-1980s as a reporter for WLBZ.
His roles at ABC, which hired him in 1997, have included anchoring Nightline and World News Tonight. He previously worked for The New Republic and Court TV.
Moran, 65, got himself suspended after he wrote on social media that Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, was “a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.”
The ex-Bangor TV journalist called Miller “a world-class hater” and also referred to President Trump as “a world-class hater.”
Bangor has examples of other TV types who went to a national network to get a taste of the limelight.
Among them was Dan Harris, who actually succeeded Moran on the anchor desk at ABC’s World News Tonight in 2006.
Harris also began his career at WLBZ, and then worked as an anchor and reporter at WCSH-TV in Portland before hitting the big-time.
He had his own challenges several years into his network career.
Harris, 53, last year talked to students at Colby College in Waterville – his alma mater – about how he turned to meditation after an on-air panic attack in 2004.
