Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as chief of News Corp subsidiary News International on Friday, was arrested Sunday by the Metropolitan Police on charges relating to the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal rolls on today, with the resignation of Rebekah Brooks as CEO of News International. Brooks' farewell email to staff, via the AP:

Last week, when News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks faced down News of the World reporters to explain why the paper was being cashiered, she warned darkly that all would become clear when the full extent of the rot at her company became known. Today another shoe dropped: Reporters for News…

As revelations emerge at a rate of about one per second in the News of the World hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch is flying in to London to attempt damage control, according to the Financial Times.

In your tropical Tuesday media column: phone hacking was nobody's fault, the NYT is selling the Declaration of Independence, Graydon Carter's expensive diet, a legendary rock critic dies, and The Weather Channel's office will kill you.