Its not "The Guardian" wanting to get Littlejohn sacked, Lowry.
The Mail were only too happy to give those 2 australian DJs a good kicking over the prank call, after which one of the nurses committed suicide. A culture of casual cruelty or something, i think they called it ( from SPs link).
Unlike Jake, I think that establishing a causal link is central to the point - whether Littlejohn should be sacked over the article, the inference being that the article prompted the teachers suicide - but since no causal link has yet been shown, and as Sqad pointed out earlier, we do not know the mindset of the teacher, it would be premature to force out even Littlejohn over this article.
Littlejohn himself is a fairly odious piece of work though; I have no time for him or his articles.
And we have many here, including Littlejohn and the DM themselves, who are basically handwaving and bleating " Won't somebody think of the children!" But I am not sure that kids are quite as precious as that; It might have taken a while to get used to the situation, but I would imagine they could probably have coped.
Not sure the school actually helped matter much with their weii-intentioned warning letter though.
I am not sure that "outing" individuals, giving details of who they are, where they work etc., when they have done nothing illegal merely to illustrate a story is good practice.
As for pdqs "point" about gender reassignment and sexual deviancy - the less said about that comment the better......