Following on from Richard Herring’s observation that the tabloid newspapers are some of the country’s biggest disseminators of ‘vile’, ’sick’ and ‘corrupting’ material and imagery, we have this (via Mike P) from the Daily Mail:

Fifteen council staff, including social workers, have been sacked or reprimanded after circulating a tasteless e-mail of reviled paedophile Gary Glitter carrying a child in a shopping bag.

And thanks to the Daily Mail, who reproduce a large copy of the image with the story on it’s website, tens of thousands of people - including children (will nobody think of the children?) - will now see the ‘tasteless’ image of ‘reviled paedophile Gary Glitter carrying a child in a shopping bag’.

Why were no Daily Mail reporters sacked or reprimanded after circulating the tasteless e-mail?