The Daily Caller Has a Free Gun for the Person Who Catches Their Hacker

Tucker Carlson's bastion of patriotic respectability, the Daily Caller, has hit upon a flawless trifecta of birds to kill with one 9mm, via the eleventh edition of its weekly gun giveaway. (Yes, weekly.) See, yesterday, the website was hacked with hardcore porn ads that undermined the whole family-friendly vibe of the enterprise, so the new contest first serves to get to the bottom of that crime: " ... if you're the first person to find our hacker and turn his name over to us, we'll give you a gun." Additionally, "We'll give a prize" — a gun engraved with the Bill of Rights — "to the person with the funniest and most inventive ideas for how TheDC should repay this jerk."

Along with facilitating justice, the giveaway serves to assert the site's support for the Second Amendment, even in the face of national tragedy. Instead of the typical one firearm prize, they're handing out two!

Most important of all, the out-of-touch macho posturing wins Carlson & Co. attention from the scandalized, stupefied, and sympathetic alike. Welcome to the Internet.

That said, an unintended consequence could very well be riling up more hackers. Bombs away.

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Layoffs Hit Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily Despite Reassurance Against ‘Haters’

Earlier this month, News Corp.'s expensive iPad newspaper experiment The Daily was reported to be "on watch" and "at a crossroads" as the company spun off its less successful publishing business. To that, editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo insisted that his staff ignore "the latest misinformed, untrue rumors of our imminent demise." In a public memo, he urged employees to pay attention to the publication's 100,000-plus subscribers, "not the haters," and added, "As something new and different, we are an easy target for erroneous wishful thinking. But make no mistake, we will be nimble and we will compete." Being nimble, it turns out, includes laying off 50 of its 170 employees.

All Things D reports, "Employees who produce the paper’s editorial page and sports coverage will be heavily hit by the layoffs, and the Daily will run skeletal versions of those sections from now on. But the cuts will affect other parts of the Daily, including its design and production staff."

Soon after the news broke, The Daily published another memo from Angelo that alludes to staff cuts, but not before noting changes to the product:

He then adds that the sports section will rely mostly on photo galleries and content from Fox Sports, not original reporting, while the editorial section will be absorbed by news.

In a longer note, News Corp. confirms "50 full-time employees, 29 percent of the full-time staff, will be released." Angelo adds, "Unfortunately, these changes have forced us to make difficult decisions and to say goodbye to some colleagues who have worked hard to make The Daily successful. These moves were driven by the needs of the business."

"We have consistently remained one of the top-ranked paid news apps since our launch, we have steadily grown our subscriber base, and we have the world's largest media and publishing company behind us," said published Greg Clayman. "Like all good digital products, however, we must change and evolve to remain fresh, competitive and sustainable." But in a horrible instance of bad timing, Clayman was reported this morning to have recently closed a deal on a $1.16 million townhouse.

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