INTEGRITY RANKING OF IOWA'S DAILY NEWSPAPERS
11-6-10
The integrity ranking table of 37 Iowa daily newspapers is completed, and sheds some good light on a major, recent event. Seven Iowa Supreme Court judges forced their evil integrity and morals on Iowans with their opinion on homosexual marriage. They were strongly encouraged by the evil in the Cedar Rapids Gazette and Des Moines Register newspapers. They were also emphatically ousted from their judgeships by the voters. The two newspapers have lost readers.
They have been silent on the integrity involved with the homosexual marriage issue. Integrity is not in their vocabulary—therefore evil is, by default. For example, their past evil editorials told Iowa school officials to “break the law”, “dumb the tests and keep two sets of school books”.
The following table ranks the Integrity Index Levels of Iowa's daily newspapers. The numbers were derived with methods described on website: http://iowalive.net/ and include all behavioral aspects for these newspapers--including advertising and how they treat their employees.
The top 12 newspapers are commendably helpful in Iowalive's efforts, and the efforts of many others, to improve Iowa--and help rid it of evil in the process. Evil is an antonym of integrity. These 12 newspapers serve as evidence and examples of integrity for other newspapers to observe and practice. Iowalive is most grateful to work with them.
INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL RANKING FOR IOWA DAILY NEWSPAPERS SHOWS ONLY 32% OF THEM HAVE SIGNIFICANT INTEGRITY. RANKING Iowa Daily Newspapers *Year-to-date, 11-1-10 Integrity Index Level, On Scale of 0 to 1,000 Tops 1 Marshalltown Times Republican 540 2 Washington Evening Journal 520 3 Spencer Daily Reporter 515 4 Le Mars Daily Sentinel 460 5 Atlantic News-Telegraph 405 6 Centerville Daily Iowegian 360 7 Cherokee Chronicle Times 340 8 Ames Tribune 325 9 Carroll Daily Times Herald 320 10 Fairfield Daily Ledger 320 11 Fort Madison Daily Democrat 320 12 Keokuk Daily Gate City 310 13 Ames Iowa State Daily 220 14 Fort Dodge Messenger 215 15 Iowa City Press-Citizen 160 16 Burlington Hawk Eye 140 17 Muscatine Journal 130 18 Cedar Rapids Gazette 120 19 Charles City Press 115 20 Oelwein Register 115 21 Oskaloosa Herald 115 22 Iowa City Daily Iowan 110 23 Estherville Daily News 80 24 Des Moines Register 70 25 Boone News-Republican 55 26 Sioux City Journal 55 27 Clinton Herald 35 28 Creston News Advertiser 30 29 Webster City Daily Freeman-Journal 30 30 Mount Pleasant News 25 31 Ottumwa Courier 25 32 Waterloo Courier 25 33 Davenport Quad-City Times 15 34 Dubuque Telegraph Herald 15 35 Mason City Globe Gazette 15 36 Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil 8 37 Newton Daily News 5 Integrity is adherence to moral and ethical principles. *Significant Integrity starts at level 300. EVIL is at or below level 250. EVIL is an antonym of Integrity. Grand larceny is comparable to level 40. Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them for evaluation and comparison.
A similar ranking of Iowa’s weekly newspapers is underway, and will soon be released.