The Cedar Rapids Gazette was proud to announce Lee Enterprise newspapers were helping with caucus news coverage. That sounded like a reasonable idea so Iowalive net workers decided to evaluate and compare the integrity of those newspapers with the integrity of the presidential candidates whom they were reporting. The candidates beat them handily--especially the Des Moines Register.
Some other Iowa newspapers were included for comparison, even though all are not reporting the caucuses.
Here are the tables showing the integrity results for the candidates and newspapers.
INTEGRITY OF REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Newt's badly needed character transformation from a Biblical Saul to a Paul, is serving him well. It sometimes befuddles him and his supporters--as well as his opponents and newspapers.
THE OVERALL TOP 2 CANDIDATES WOULD MOST LIKELY BEAT OBAMA, PERFORM WELL AS PRESIDENT--AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE AS WELL. OVERALL INTEGRITY RANK CANDIDATE OVERALL INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL, INCLUDING PERFORMANCE AS PRESIDENT AND ABILITY TO DEFEAT OBAMA, ON SCALE OF 0 TO 1,000 TOPS. CANDIDATE'S PERSONAL INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL, ON SCALE OF 0 TO 1,000 TOPS OTHER INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL RANK 1 Newt Gingrich 560 505 2 2 Mitt Romney 530 150 5 3 Ron Paul 270 650 1 4 Rick Perry 250 50 7 5 Jon Huntsman 50 420 3 6 Michele Bachmann 40 160 4 7 Rick Santorum 6 100 6 SIGNIFICANT INTEGRITY STARTS AT LEVEL 300. ANYONE CLAIMING TO HAVE BETTER NUMBERS IS ASKED TO PROVIDE THEM
INTEGRITY OF SOME IOWA NEWSPAPERS REPORTING ON CANDIDATES & CAUCUSES
It is obviously much better for voters to listen directly to the candidates--and that appears to be what they are doing, with all the debates etc.
INTEGRITY OF A FEW IA NEWSPAPERS. SOME ARE COVERING IOWA CAUCUSES. GAZETTE & HELPER LEE ENTERPRISE NEWSPAPERS COVERING IOWA CAUCUSES AVG. INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL, PAST 6 MONTHS TO DATE 12-1-11, ON SCALE OF 0 TO 1,000 TOPS. Significant Integrity Starts at 300. QUAD-CITY TIMES 90 SIOUX CITY JOURNAL 75 GAZETTE 55 MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE 45 MUSCATINE JOURNAL 35 COURIER--WATERLOO & CEDAR FALLS 15 OTHER NEWSPAPERS Atlantic News-Telegraph 630 Marshalltown Times Republican 520 Spencer Daily Reporter 510 Le Mars Daily Sentinel 470 Cherokee Chronicle Times 460 Washington Evening Journal 450 Carroll Daily Times Herald 450 Centerville Daily Iowegian 330 Fort Madison Daily Democrat 320 Keokuk Daily Gate City 260 Fairfield Daily Ledger 160 Ames Tribune 150 DES MOINES REGISTER--COVERS CAUCUSES 25 Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them.