A spokesman for Rupert Murdoch has disputed comments made by the News Corp chairman's son-in-law in a Sunday New York Times profile about Fox News chief Roger Ailes. "I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to," Matthew Freud, a British public relations executive who is married to Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, was quoted as saying in the feature. In a statement to the London Financial Times , the News Corp spokesman said, "Matthew Freud's opinions are his own and in no way reflect the views of Rupert Murdoch, who is proud of Roger Ailes and Fox News." Meanwhile, the Times article was also criticized from a different angle by Michael Wolff, author of the Murdoch biography The Man Who Owns the News . In an article posted on his Newser.com website and The Huffington Post, Wolff claims that his book was extensively cited without attribution by Times writers David Carr and Tim Arango in their Ailes piece and that his remarks to Arango for the article were ascribed to a blind source. "That's what happens when you get on the wrong side of the Times, whose business troubles and mismanagement I've written lots about," Wolff wrote. "They disappear you."

12/01/2010