In the English-language media markets it is impossible for any journalist, editor, publisher or owner to be more corrupt, more of a liar, more of a fraud, and more of a success at selling all three than Rupert Murdoch. That was until the mass media at which Murdoch excelled were superseded and outread by the... Read More

Hong Kong gossip has it that the first time Wendi Deng met her future husband Rupert Murdoch, she accidentally-on-purpose spilled red wine on his trousers. Recounted by the Australian journalist Eric Ellis, the story is probably apocryphal, but it still captures something important: she is the sort of person other people like to tell stories... Read More

Was there ever a luckier clan than the Bancrofts, whose elders okayed the $5 billion sale of the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. on Tuesday. There’s been some solemn talk about the Bancrofts’ “stewardship of this national institution� since they acquired the Dow Jones company a century ago. In fact the Journal... Read More

LONDON. This city is now recovering from the November visit of a global tyrant, on whose rampages the sun never sets. His name is not George Bush but Rupert Murdoch. Bush, acknowledged as their legitimately elected leader by at least some of his fellow citizens, presented so frail a political physique that it seemed faintly... Read More

DESPITE RUMORS TO THE contrary, Rupert Murdoch was not interested in buying the Washington Star before Time Inc. decided last month to fold it. Similarly, Murdoch has not joined such newspaper combines ad Knight-Ridder, Dow Jones and the New York Times Co. in their eagerness to pay multiples of asset values for cable television properties.... Read More