Reporters arrested: Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is reeling again after British authorities arrested five more top reporters and editors. A total of nine employees of The Sun, Britain’s biggest newspaper, are now under arrest for alleged bribery of police and other public officials. More than a dozen other current and former employees of Murdoch’s News International group are also being investigated. Sun staffers said they felt betrayed by management, which gave police receipts, expense reports, messages, and other internal documents implicating them or their colleagues without conducting its own internal investigation. “It’s a very brutal way of treating senior journalists who may or may not have done anything wrong,” said Barry Fitzpatrick, head of the journalists’ union.
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