Roger Ailes' job safe, Fox News says

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. moved quickly Wednesday to damp speculation that Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes' future with the media giant was in doubt. "News Corp. is 100% behind Roger Ailes," News Corp. President Chase Carey said, adding, "We hope and expect he will continue to lead Fox News well into the future." The media giant looked to pour water on an Internet brush fire of stories claiming that Ailes' days at Fox News were numbered. Kicking off those reports were critical comments about Ailes made by Matthew Freud, the husband of Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth. Freud, a public relations executive whose clients have included Fox News rival CNN, suggested that others in the family shared his views.