There’s little more enjoyable for Britain’s most-popular red-top tabloid than to splash on a celebrity breakup. But the Sun‘s
coverage of the implosion of one of the world’s highest-profile
celebrity unions, between its proprietor Rupert Murdoch and his
glamorous third wife, 44-year-old Wendi Deng, is notably terse.
“Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from from his wife Wendi Deng. Mr Murdoch, 82, the head of the Sun’s parent company News Corporation, filed a petition with the New York Supreme Court stating their 14-year marriage had ‘broken down irretrievably.’ They have two daughters.”And that was almost the full extent of the report posted early Friday on the Sun‘s website. The item—bereft of the Sun‘s hallmark tongue-in-cheek humor, salacious detail and intimate quotes from unnamed “friends”—concludes with a note of reassurance for any concerned Sun readers, shareholders or employees: “A News Corp spokesman said the divorce will have ‘zero impact’ on the firm.”