Down and dirty

It is always irritating when journalists hint at something but avoid telling the full story. Alan Cochrane, on commenting on the McKie affair, in Scotland on Sunday is the guilty party here:

"However, far from public gaze, another scenario is being played out. More than a few Labour MSPs are putting it around that the real reason everyone in the Executive is so adamantly opposed to an inquiry of any kind, is that such an investigation would focus not on Colin Boyd's decisions but on Ms Jamieson's.
In particular, this outrageous whispering campaign suggests any such detailed investigation might raise questions about Ms McKie, and also suggests she might have had her reasons for settling the case.
All of which, so this conspiracy theory goes, would raise serious questions about Ms Jamieson's decision to sign that whopping great cheque of taxpayers' money."

This is unfair to his readers and also to Ms Jamieson.