Well, I’d best fulfil my expected role of tame Scot Nat, I suppose.
It goes without saying that nobody at all should be subjected to any kind of abuse just for going about their business and doing their job. In that, I agree with Sarah Smith.
However 
Sarah’s reporting is far from unbiassed. She consistently made “mistakes” 
on the evening news which painted the Scottish government in a negative light. For example; she said Sturgeon was enjoying the pandemic; that Alex Salmond thought Sturgeon should resign (he didn’t); she used the annual figures for hospital waiting lists instead of the weekly ones; my favourite was when she asked a Scottish football supporter if he wasn’t supporting the English team because he hated the English. She apologised for her “mistakes” on twitter – quite a different demographic and reach to the BBS Scotland tea time news, where no apologies were made.
But most of all, I have to wonder at the excuse that people take against her due to misogyny down to her dad having been the Leader of the Labour Party, and thinking that she should be just like him. Her dad was a figure who commanded respect in Scotland, but he’s been gone nearly 30 years. It seems a bit weak to claim that people hate her because of her dad when he’s been gone so long and most young people probably can’t remember who he was. I remember though. And I used to watch Sarah’s biased reporting and say to myself, “Do you think your Da would be proud of you?”
Then there was her twitter post complaining that politician’s husbands get knighthoods, what about the wives? Quickly followed by the post that said something like “yes, I know, I forgot about my mum’s peerage…”
So finally, there is lots of very unpleasant abuse suffered by supporters of all parties in Scotland. When Kate Forbes announced on Twitter that she was pregnant, the first response was “S***, they’re breeding”. The Scottish Tories thought it would be a good wheeze to troll an SNP supporter currently receiving chemo for Stage 3 cancer. Ian Blackford has been told in the House of Commons to F*** off back to Skye, and just today I remonstrated with a GN poster who said that Sturgeon was Nazi with an unhealthy interest in underage sex.
We’ll see how Ms Smith gets on reporting on the US political scene won’t we? No excuses there for any "mistakes".
No, she didn't "get what she deserved". Please read my first paragraph again, nobody deserves to be abused for doing their job, irrespective of their political stance.
However, she is using the abuse she got to try to paint a picture of a Scotland where anybody who doesn't support the SNP better watch their backs, and it's not like that. She's trying to say that she is a paragon of balanced reporting when she surely is not. And its not only the extreme ScotNats who indulge in this kind of behaviour, its anybody who think they can get away with it, including Tory MPs in Westminster and the slightly odd people on GN who think Nicola Sturgeon is a Nazi.
What I claim is most certainly correct; see attached for 2 pieces of evidence. I could find more but its Saturday night and I've had a gin 
I guess I think she is looking for sympathy and has a bit of a chip on her shoulder.
Oh, here's a good one. Posted by the Scottish Tories Covid Recovery Spokesman, and one of the list MSPs for my area, God help us.
Poor Sarah 
JaneJudge
Poor Sarah
Poor Kate.
Poor Janey.
Poor Lorna.
Poor Nicola.
Poor Ruth, even.
Poor Mhairi.
But some have their big girl pants on.
JaneJudge
Poor Sarah
I thought she was just fine but if the level of vitriol on here is any indication of what she has had to put up with as personal attacks then I agree.
Poor Sarah
Driven from her home by zealots.
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