Until Friday, Brooks was the defiant chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British newspaper arm, whose News of the World tabloid stands accused of hacking into the phones of celebrities, politicians, other journalists and even murder victims. In the tumultuous last two weeks, she had kept her job even as Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old tabloid and tossed 200 other journalists out of work.
If she was guilty of anything, said her colleagues, it was of not knowing what her subordinates were doing.
The company’s version of who was to blame for what happened at the News of the World has been implicitly challenged in a fundamental way by the decision of the Metropolitan Police to arrest Rebekah Brooks on suspicion of alleged involvement in phone hacking and corruption.
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