Wendi Murdoch

Did Matt Drudge just revere-jujitsu a Rupert Murdoch rumour into the news? Australian website Crikey reported that Murdoch split with his wife Wendi Deng. No one, anywhere, picked it up, because Murdoch runs half the gossip industry. But here’s Matt! (more…)  

Did Matt Drudge just revere-jujitsu a Rupert Murdoch rumor into the news? Australian website Crikey reported that Murdoch split with his wife Wendi Deng. No one, anywhere, picked it up, because Murdoch runs half the gossip industry. But here's Matt! We cannot even find the original item. Just this piece in the Sydney Morning Herald referencing and more or less refuting it. Michael Wolff, quoted in the SMH story, did not even picked it up for...  

Daily Sunshine December 8, 2009 Today's Daily Sunshine has a large red headline block about China's annual Central Economic Work Conference which XInhia says is "held once a year to set the tone for next year's economic development, comprises policy-making officials from central and provincial-level governments, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao". The headlines read: Clear proposals at the closing of the Central...  

We get lots of suggestions of what to post on Gawker every day. Today at the #tips page: Rupert-Wendi are splitting, Sarah Palin is a dildo, Nick Denton's a spy, n+1 gets dramatic, among other untruths. MyrtleWilloughby is as perplexed as we are about Matt Drudge's link-less headline: "RUPERT MURDOCH/WENDI DENG HAPPILY TOGETHER DESPITE FALSE REPORT OVERNIGHT IN ASIA... MORE..." Also sun shining, Tiger Woods' penis wandering. NowMyButtHurts...  

Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi Deng at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Media mogul Rupert Murdoch blamed some of New York's troubles on Gov. David Paterson's blindness, which the Australian billionaire claims makes it hard for Paterson to "really know what's going on." While listing some of the problems facing the state at a Wall Street Journal CEO conference on Monday, Murdoch — who owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and Fox...  

Had Tom Wolfe been younger, this Rupert Murdoch with his Pay Walls and young wife Wendi would be making its way into a comedy of manners. The old-line Wall Street type - Sherman McCoy - would be replaced by a...