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NY Times recycled gender "cliché" in puff piece on Giuliani, the "commanding daddy"

May 29, 2007 7:10 pm ET
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SUMMARY: In a profile of Rudy Giuliani, The New York Times called him "a commanding daddy of a candidate" and described him as "the father" when compared with other presidential candidates, bolstering the characterization of the Democratic and Republican parties as the "Mommy" and "Daddy" parties, respectively, when the paper itself has presented evidence to counter this view and has described it as a "cliché."

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