Why Eileen Fleming is no longer a Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph
Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?"
"But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?"
"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Fleming was fired because she would not comply with her editor's stricture not to deal with matters spiritual/ religious AFTER she had written an article doing just so. A retroactive stricture is not justified. What the editor did was censorship, not editing. If we read only what we agree with, we learn nothing. I by the way, am an atheist, not usually interested in matters spiritual/ religious. And yes , I thought her article interesting and informative. And yes, the quality of the writing was excellent.