"The people I work with–all my bosses–seem to be for Hillary. I just sense it. They don't actually say it, but there's no sense from the top I can tell you that it's pro-Obama.. by any means. That's not what I get. And it was basically pro-war during the war.. the bosses were. And I was up against that." [FBDC, earlier]

Uh, yes. And anyone who works in television news already knew this. So far, there are on-the-record guilty pleas from top people who were, at the time, working at NBC (Katie Couric) and MSNBC (Jessica Yellin, though she sort of backtracked). [NYT] Who's next? And don't look so shocked when they come forward.

CNN's Jessica Yellin, who on Anderson Cooper's show last night revealed she had felt pressure from above to "patriotize" her news reports when covering the Bush White House and the Iraq war, has now clarified her remarks as promised. For one, she clears up that she was talking about ABC, where she used to work, but MSNBC, of all places, where she "worked as a segment producer, overnight anchor, field reporter, and briefly covered the White House, the Pentagon, and general Washington stories." And also: It wasn't like Jeff Immelt was ringing her extension to tell her to draw hearts around Bush's photos.

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CNN's Jessica Yellin will explain, in a blog post, what she really meant last night when she told Anderson Cooper there was pressure from top network execs, at her old ABC job, to play nice with the Bush administration during the beginning of the Iraq war. [TVN, earlier] Did somebody shit where she didn't mean to?

Surprise! When that little war in Iraq was beginning, television news execs pressured producers not to air stories critical of the Bush administration. That was always sort of known, but like Fight Club, never talked about.

And then last night, CNN's Jessica Yellin, who used to get a paycheck from ABC News, told Anderson Cooper all about it: "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."

Responded Cooper in exasperation (that she'd admit to it?): "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?" Video below.

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