Rupert Murdoch (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"], AUDIO: Lost [+]Loading...["Lost (audio story)"]) was a businessman involved with the media on Earth. (PROSE: A letter from the Master [+]Loading...["A letter from the Master (short story)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the Master used Rupert to organise his media interests on Earth. Rupert's brain, however, had been swapped for the brain of a Bandril. (PROSE: A letter from the Master [+]Loading...["A letter from the Master (short story)"])
Lukas Samuel Carnes described Dara Morgan as a cross between Murdoch, Richard Branson and Bill Gates. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"])
Shawna Thompson believed that the Murdochs controlled the media, and that they were behind the BBC denying that they held any footage from the Royal Hope Hospital incident. (AUDIO: Hysteria [+]Loading...["Hysteria (audio story)"]) Cleo Proctor claimed that Shawna did not really believe in the mysterious happenings that they talked about on their The Blue Box Files podcast, instead believing that "everything is the FBI or CIA or Rupert Murdoch". (AUDIO: Lost [+]Loading...["Lost (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
When Rupert Murdoch was first referenced in A letter from the Master [+]Loading...["A letter from the Master (short story)"], he was only identified by his first name; the novel Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"] would later fully name him.
From 2016 to 2022, Murdoch was married to Jerry Hall. However, no DWU source connects Hall with Murdoch.
He was portrayed by Ben Miller in Tracey Ullman's Show and Tracey Breaks the News, and voiced by Dan Castellaneta in several episodes of The Simpsons.