This was an issue in only 5 of the 28 studies that reported favorably about the programs.
On Mawn's return, he reported favorably on O'Neill to Freeh, adding that Bodine was his "only detractor".
Most report favorably on the embedding experience, although a correspondent for Al Jazeera complained he was not allowed to attend the same military briefings that his Western colleagues did.
Other charges against Mr. Ibrahim include accepting foreign donations without government permission, using donated money for personal gain and bribing newscasters to report favorably on the center's work.
The State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, said American officials shared the concerns of the international observers, "about things like state media systematically reporting favorably on pro-Kremlin parties and reporting negatively on opponents".
More than 20 Iraqis of different sects and ethnicities said in interviews across the country that they viewed the report favorably because it — or, at least the parts shown on television in Iraq — portrayed the situation accurately.
The vast majority of journalists did not need any extra incentive to report favorably on Yeltsin, but now some operatives, working at arm's length from the campaign, distributed money to the few journalists who were not already on board for love.
In February 1859, a Navy board reported favorably on the Coston signal, stating that it was a better signal than any known to them and reiterating that "a good code of signals, plainly intelligible to the persons addressed, is absolutely necessary for the efficient conduct of a fleet".
In 2009, the SZN went through an external peer-review evaluation that reported favorably on its recent activity.
The agency's intent was signaled in a U.S. Government Accountability Office study released Thursday that reported favorably on rules in California requiring payment by businesses of back federal employment taxes as a condition to operate.
