Bad Taste Jokes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1575340/Bad-taste-jokes-need-time-to-be-funny.html

Is the sending of jokes which are in bad taste considered bad behaviour? Whenever something bad happens (disasters etc) or when someone famous dies, it does not seem to take long before someone sends a sick joke relating to it. The jokes come so quickly now that in one case I found out about the event first because of a joke instead of on the news. Among the many subjects to have jokes sent about them in the last couple of years are Joseph Fritzl, Micheal Jackson, Gary Glitter, Madeline McCann, and Jade Goody. Is it morrally right to make jokes out of other peoples suffering and subjects such as rape and paedophilia? Why do people not consider the feelings of the victims? Is the making of jokes of subjects like these only noticable now they are sent as texts, or have we as a society always told jokes like this - there is no way anyone would dare print or broadcast on radio or TV jokes like these.