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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14073107

Robert Peston

There is a big question for James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, who tonight announced the closure of the News of the World.

Whether he sacrificed a business, and the career prospects of the News of the World's staff, to protect a particularly valued employee: Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International.

Presumably, no-one will think that he did that in a conscious, deliberate way.

But the sharpest critics of the malpractices at the News of the World, such as the Labour leader Ed Miliband, have been calling for her head.

None of those critics, to my knowledge, were demanding that the News of the World should be shut.

So it is at least plausible that if Rebekah Brooks had resigned in the past 24 hours, some of the popular and political fury towards News International and the News of the World would have been assuaged.

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