I asked why that was the case, and he said simply that my book on the death of the original Rangers represented “thousands of hours of investigative work”. I worked on the Ranger’s financial story from the beginning of 2009 until the book was published in September 2012. I was reminded of this conversation when an NUJ colleague sent me this piece from the Hold The Front Page. I addressed this absence of genuine investigative journalism in the mainstream in this piece in 2018 after seeing The Post with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. The Ibrox saga has proven that the local media in Glasgow decided long ago that journalism wasn’t for them.
