Waking up bleary-eyed this morning at 6.45am, we reached over to switch on Good Morning Scotland, just in time for the news headlines round-up. This is what we heard:

(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 28 April 2015)

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We honestly thought in our semi-awake state we might have dreamed it.

But no, this really was the lead headline of the morning:

“Labour and the Conservatives both counter the rhetoric from the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.”

And that was all of it. That was what the state broadcaster felt was a fair and accurate summary of the main story of the day, whatever it was (we didn’t know, because we’d just woken up). From there the show moved on to traffic news and a report of Apple’s latest profit figures, followed by an interview with a market analyst on the same subject. There was no explanation of which “rhetoric” had been “countered”.

Next up we got a piece about Polish border guards and Russian bikers from Belarus, then the imminent execution of drug smugglers in Indonesia. By now a full 15 minutes had passed since the “summary” and we were onto the main 7am news bulletin, where we finally got to the alleged story, which was that Labour and the Tories had “hit back” about comments in Nicola Sturgeon’s three BBC interviews yesterday.

No actual quotes from anyone (even unnamed spokespeople) in either party were given, and no refutations of any of the claims were offered.

We’ll leave you to your own judgements.