Rupert Murdoch's Staff Arrested As Tabloid Scandal Spreads To Second Newspaper

[Galraedia]

LONDON -- The criminal investigation into British tabloid skullduggery turned full force on a second Rupert Murdoch publication Saturday, with the arrest of four current and former journalists from The Sun on suspicion of bribing police.

A serving police officer was also held, and authorities searched the newspaper's offices as part an investigation into illegal payments for information.

The arrests spread the scandal over tabloid wrongdoing – which has already shut down one Murdoch paper, the News of the World – to Britain's best-selling newspaper.

London police said two men aged 48 and one aged 56 were arrested on suspicion of corruption early in the morning at homes in and around London. A 42-year-old man was detained later at a London police station.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/the-sun-employees-arreste_n_1238980.html

[Cleita]

1. Good news!

I hope that whole nest of vipers gets cleared out once and for all. I suppose ole Rupert won't get frog-marched, but at least his influence will go way down.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. LOL, I never heard the expression frog-marched. What does that mean? I like it. Whatever it is

it would be nice to see ole Rupert get it.

[Cleita]

11. From dictionary.com

frog·march/ˈfrôgˌmärCH/
Verb:
Force (someone) to walk forward by holding and pinning their arms from behind.

[lpbk2713]

12. As in ...

[southernyankeebelle]

13. Thank you.

[Spazito]

3. Up from one to two of Murdoch's news rags...

If they were doing this illegal crap there, it stands to reason they were doing in the U.S. and Australia as well, imo.

News Corp needs to go down in flames, sooner rather than later is my wish.

[malaise]

4. From the UK Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/28/news-international-four-men-arrested
<snip>
Four current and former senior Sun journalists and one serving police officer have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's investigation into police corruption.

The Metropolitan police have also launched a search at News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, in an attempt to secure any potential evidence relating to alleged payments to police by journalists.

It is the first time since the phone-hacking scandal erupted that the Sun has been targeted in such a major way, but sources stressed the dawn raid had nothing to do with voicemail interception and was solely related to paying police for stories.

The arrests came after information was passed to the police by News Corporation's internal investigations unit, the Management and Standards Committee. It was set up by Rupert Murdoch in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, which erupted last July, and operates independently of News International.
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The problem here is that it looks as though Murdoch is pretending he and his folksdidn't promote this approach to journalism. I'm not buying it.

[think]

5. News Corporation internal investigations unit: Does the Fox

guard the hen house?

[malaise]

7. Looks like a nice cover-up

from within - get the lower ranks let the big boys skate - as usual.

[lpbk2713]

6. Does the UK have an equivalent of the RICOH Act?

I'd love to see them shut down Murdoch's entire empire like a house of cards.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

8. Not yet.

This explains it.
http://www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk/index.php?/Analysis/is-the-uk-ready-for-rico.html

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[Kingofalldems]

10. K and R all Murdoch scandal threads