PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland — “Glee” is not just an American TV show, it is also the emotion many people feel and express toward the trouble Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is having, since they consider Murdoch’s properties a blight on their formerly pristine media landscape. There are two strains running through the phone-hacking scandal that monopolizes much of the media attention in the U.K. One is the attitude of the mainstream media types who are frustrated by the success of Murdoch properties, most notably Fox News Channel in America (to which I contribute).
They see Murdoch’s troubles with the now shuttered News of the World tabloid as an opportunity to destroy the Murdoch empire, which they have been unable to do by competing with it.
