作者: choi 时间: 4-11-2014 06:28
The BBC report is based on (but the Fortune does not publish the whole interview here online, which stop before it reaches Ms Wendi DENG)
Patricia Sellers, The Fortune interview: Rupert Murdoch. Fortunes, Apr 10, 2014 .
money.cnn.com/2014/04/10/leadership/rupert-murdoch.pr.fortune/
("all I'm worried about or do worry about is two beautiful little girls from that marriage [to Wendi Deng, whom he divorced last November]") (brackets in original)
Note:
(a) "And though battered by turmoil and strife -- and a recent fall on his head, as he revealed in this Q&A -- Murdoch seems newly secure as the world's most powerful global media billionaire. Starting with a single Australian newspaper that he inherited from his father in 1952"
(i) "a recent fall on his head"
I do not know about the mishap, but it means he fell and his head hit something (ground, cabinet, etc).
(ii) Rupert Murdoch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
(born in 1931 in Melbourne; MA, University of Oxford [1953 (age 22); no college degree ("College: NA" Forbes)])
Quote:
Rupert's father "was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town.
"Following his father's death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of the family business News Limited, which had been established in 1923. Rupert Murdoch turned its newspaper, Adelaide News, its main asset, into a major success.
(b) Adelaide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide
(capital of South Australia; Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV [of UK; 1765-1837; reign 1830-1837; the third son of George III and younger brother and successor to George IV], the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital)
(c) Adelaide of Italy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Italy
(931-999)
(d) Adelaide is the "French form of the Old German Adalheidis, a compound of 'athal' (noble) and 'haida' (hood [as in "sainthood"])."
is a saint.
(e) "News Corp acquired Dow Jones in 2007, bringing the Wall Street Journal into its stable of print assets needing to adapt to a digital age. Efforts to leverage Dow Jones's Factiva business database have faltered."
Factiva
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factiva 作者: choi 时间: 4-11-2014 06:28
Ian Johnson, Rupert Murdoch tells of ‘shock’ over Wendi Deng’s admiring notes about Tony Blair. The Independent, Apr 11, 2014 www.independent.co.uk/news/ruper ... -blair-9252724.html
("Mr Blair has denied having an affair with Ms Deng and there is nothing to suggest that he did")作者: choi 时间: 4-11-2014 06:29
Mark Seal, Seduced and Abandoned. The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom? Vanity Fair, March 2014 (eight Web pages). www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-tony-blair