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| Rupert Murdoch in UK to tackle Sun arrests fallout | Rupert Murdoch in UK to tackle Sun arrests fallout |
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| Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, has arrived in London to take charge of the latest crisis involving one of his newspapers. | Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, has arrived in London to take charge of the latest crisis involving one of his newspapers. |
| Ten current and former senior staff at The Sun have been arrested since November in connection with alleged corrupt payments to public officials. | Ten current and former senior staff at The Sun have been arrested since November in connection with alleged corrupt payments to public officials. |
| Sun journalists are angry at the way police were handed information by a News Corporation committee. | Sun journalists are angry at the way police were handed information by a News Corporation committee. |
| Mr Murdoch is expected to speak to staff of his UK newspaper group later. | Mr Murdoch is expected to speak to staff of his UK newspaper group later. |
| He will address employees at the headquarters of News International in Wapping, east London. | He will address employees at the headquarters of News International in Wapping, east London. |
| Last year News Corporation closed the News of the World over impropriety. | Last year News Corporation closed the News of the World over impropriety. |
| Revelations that staff employed by the newspaper hacked the phones of public figures prompted the closure of the 168-year-old paper. | Revelations that staff employed by the newspaper hacked the phones of public figures prompted the closure of the 168-year-old paper. |
| Emotional relationship | |
| Mr Murdoch arrived on a private plane at Luton Airport from the US on Thursday evening. | Mr Murdoch arrived on a private plane at Luton Airport from the US on Thursday evening. |
| It follows anger at the way in which the News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee set up to investigate allegations of wrongdoing at the Sun passed on information to the police. | It follows anger at the way in which the News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee set up to investigate allegations of wrongdoing at the Sun passed on information to the police. |
| The National Union of Journalists has said news organisations have a duty to protect their sources, and is considering a legal challenge to the company. | The National Union of Journalists has said news organisations have a duty to protect their sources, and is considering a legal challenge to the company. |
| Media commentator Steve Hewlett told the BBC Mr Murdoch's relationship with the Sun was an emotional one, but that he was a businessman first. | |
| He said the corporation had no option other than to be seen to "clean house", angering journalists by putting at risk traditional loyalties. | |
| "They are creating wider concerns about handing information about journalists' contacts to police just because an internal committee thinks there may have been a payment that was illegitimate or unlawful to a public official." | |
| Public interest test | |
| He said the internal committee was not differentiating between suspect relationships and those in the public interest, such as "a £50 lunch that helped to discovered troops in Afghanistan are woefully equipped". | |
| The paper's former political editor Trevor Kavanagh used his Sun column to question the management's actions. | |
| Writing in the Sun's sister paper, the Times, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said newspapers had a legal and moral duty to protect their sources. | Writing in the Sun's sister paper, the Times, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said newspapers had a legal and moral duty to protect their sources. |
| Mr Murdoch has previously said he would not close the Sun. | Mr Murdoch has previously said he would not close the Sun. |