Shooting the messenger?

  • 1999-06-17
  • By Philip Birzulis
RIGA – Anatolijs Gorbunovs does not believe the old saw that any publicity is good publicity. He has publicly attacked the daily Diena for allegedly biased coverage in the prelude to the presidential elections and is refusing to talk to the paper.In an open letter from Gorbunovs, which Diena published June 9, the Latvia's Way candidate claimed that the paper has written nothing positive about him, focusing instead on one-sided criticism concerning his past as a senior communist. For this reason, he has decided to turn down its request for an interview."I cannot accept the self righteousnes...
 
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