Former ABC News reporter Jessica Yellin, currently of CNN, was on that network last night, discussing Scott McClellan's accusations that the liberal media pretty much rolled over for the administration during the run-up to the war in Iraq. Here's what she told Anderson Cooper:

YELLIN: The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings. And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives -- and I was not at this network at the time -- but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time....

COOPER: You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?

YELLIN: Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces," Yellin said. "They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience.

Later in the program, Yellin informed a visibly shaken Cooper that there really isn't a man living in the North Pole who dispenses presents to every child in the world each December. [Politico]