WaPo Carries AP Obit of Anti-Communist Fighter, Insists He's 'Still Co

Ken Shepherd
August 16th, 2011 12:40 PM
A daring Czech anti-Communist freedom who escaped to West Berlin in 1953 and later served in the U.S. Army died on August 13 "of an undisclosed illness in a war veterans residence in Cleveland." When it came to noting his passing, the Washington Post ran a slightly-edited version of an AP story by Karl Janicek that Post editors headlined "Czech who fought communism still controversial."* By…