In Wake of McClellan Charges: A Revealing Look Back at How the Press Bought the War

By Greg Mitchell

Published: May 29, 2008 11:30 AM ET
NEW YORK Debate continues today over charges by former White House spokesman Scott McClellan, in a new book and on TV, that his former boss "hoodwinked" the media, and the public, into going along with the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003. Today, a CNN correspondent, Jessica Yellin, revealed that the ABC network, where she once worked, had discouraged negative pieces at the behest of the White House.

Other reporters are actively defending their performance.