I have been an admirer of the US Constitution's First Amendment since my school days.

Even if it may be a politically incorrect thing to say, like the many similar instances in my 20 plus years with the paper, I continue to hold my job.

Yet two American journalists, 44-year-old senior CNN Middle East editor Octavia Nasr and 89-year-old White House correspondent Helen Thomas have not been as fortunate. They have both lost their jobs for saying things that are politically incorrect in the United States.