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CNN's Jessica Yellin, who worked at ABC News from 2003 to 2007, says: "The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in 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 [CNN] at the time ...They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive." || Will Bunch: We need an investigative reporter to investigate the reporters.