“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,” Yellin said.
Except now even Scott McLellan says the war was based on lies and deception. Considering that plenty of Left news sources and blogs were printing the truth then, those corporate executives had to know what the actual truth was. They deliberately repressed the truth, and a free press along with it.