Giuliani's Wife Married Three Times

“A Double Standard for the Triply Wed” is an article that the New York Times published on April 1, 2007. The article starts out reporting on Judith Giuliani being married three times, the third marriage being to her current husband Rudolph Giuliani who is a Republican candidate for President. Although the article starts out with Judith coming “out of the closet” so to speak, the majority of the article is about statistics of divorce and successful thrice married women. Judith says in the article that although Mr. Giuliani knew about her other two marriages, they decided to make it public because of their concerns of how it would affect his campaign for president. The concern the Giuliani’s have is about the media coverage and how it will affect voter’s decisions at the pole’s come Election Day. This was a wise decision because it can counter attack ads and negative press against the Giuliani’s. Attack ads are always a threat to anyone running for public office. I feel like if you go ahead and get all of your skeletons out of the closet in the beginning, the public won’t feel like you are trying to hide something.

The fact that the writer opens with Mrs. Giuliani and ends the story by concluding that it really doesn’t matter any more whether women have been divorced more than twice, makes me think that this is a biased story, trying to send the message that this shouldn’t effect voters decisions. It is too early to tell how this will affect Republican voters who are normally classified as conservative, notes the reporter. Whatever the affect may be, this is a good way to put a speed bump on negative press coverage.