Sarah Smith

Crikey.

Well its been 12 hours and no more comments. Let's think.

Everybody has stood down because of the nasty bullying cybernats who like to stand up for themselves?

The story was just started to wind up the SNP supporters?

People are so overcome with anger at the unprecedented criticism of such a senior journalist and have lost the ability to post?

I imagine we'll never know.

I didn't know enough about it and went to bed

Everybody has stood down because of the nasty bullying cybernats who like to stand up for themselves?

Or lost interest in the (predictable) SNP/Unionist bickering?

Welcome back, by the way.

Thanks Maw

Just read the thread.

I have come to the conclusion that as usual every other Government, MP, or minister is fair game for all sorts of jokes, jibes, cruel comments etc other than Ms.Nicola Sturgeon.

I guess normal service has been resumed…

I guess normal service has been resumed

Looks like it!

Might have been more informative if Volver had posted SS origional remark so we see the context. Maybe NS was right to be affronted but then SS apologised and explained what she meant. I haven't been following SS in particular but hadn't got the impression she had been particularly critical about NS or the SNP and sounded reasonable that the abuse hurled at her was uncalled for. Hope she is happier in her new post.

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Sarah+smith+nicila+enjoying&&view=detail&mid=B350CDA245387D5870B5B350CDA245387D5870B5&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DSarah%2Bsmith%2Bnicila%2Benjoying%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

This thread illustrates the desperate division between unionists and separatists - exactly the kind of unpleasantness that Sarah Smith talked about.

Yes Aveline you're correct.

Sarah Smith was in a position of influence at the BBC and used it to promulgate the idea that Sturgeon was using the opportunity of a pandemic to make political capital. This was early in the pandemic when we were all trying to do the right thing and follow the rules. Scotland's rules were more stringent than England and Smith was implying that this was because Nicola was just trying to be "not English". Now that idea has been spread around the country and maybe you believe it, but its not up to BBC reporters to undermine the Public Health moves of any government.

Nobody deserves to have abuse because of the work that they do, nobody. But to try to paint oneself as a whiter-than-white journalist who was just doing their job, while adopting a partisan position, that’s not acceptable. As for saying its only because of who her dad was, well that really is just pathetic, don’t you think?

Janey Godley isn’t to everyone’s taste and she’s certainly overstepped the mark on several occasions. But recently the Scottish Tory party decided to troll her online while she was being treated for Stage 3 Cancer. Even the right-wing comedian Geoff Norcott criticised them for it.

Both sides need to grow up, but one side in particular needs to stop playing the victim.

Thanks for the link. As I thought SS was saying NS was enjoying being able to make decisons for Scotland, not revelling in people's misery. Scottish restictions were more stringent compared to England but I didn't see that as knocking NS, just making commentry. If I recall there was a period last summer when numbers were higher in Scotland yet they still had mandatory mask wearing. On the other hand many have been critical of Boris for lifting restrictions too soon / not soon enough.

That is awful about Janey Godley

Yes. Read my post of 11:08 to understand what she said.

And realise it wasn't a stand alone comment.

Do you think it's appropriate for a senior journalist on the state broadcaster to use the word "enjoy" about a pandemic? Why did she apologise if she didn't think it was important?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60646196

BBC breached Ofcom rules over Alex Salmond report error by Sarah Smith

I guess OFCOM are out to get her as well, are they?

He said that he had no doubt that Nicola Sturgeon had broken the ministerial code but it was not up to him if she should resign. Fair enough. Both true. Sarah Smith, herself, apologised on the next broadcast. I suspect she was just trying to sum up his many hours of testimony and abreviated it just too much. It was a very long (but riveting) day.

Did you read the judgement Aveline? Poor little Sarah, she was working so hard, it was just a mistake.

One mistake is just that, a mistake. Two is coincidence. Three? Starting to see a pattern.

Well she has bagged herself a much better job in a much nicer and more interesting place, so good for her!

Not only that, I sat through Salmonds long, long testimony and Sturgeon's equally long and forgetful sessions. I can quite see how Sarah Smith inadvertently summed it up slightly wrong.

I agree blue25 she's moved on to a much more pleasant job.
As ever, I wish her Dad was still around.

You would have thought that the responsibility of being the BBC's senior journalist in Scotland and a salary of £180k (allegedly) would have been enough to keep her focussed on actually reporting the facts, rather than her imaginings of what the facts were.

But even if not, subsequently behaving in a way that gets your employers told by OFCOM that they had not acted correctly, that's a corker. She didn't apologise on the next broadcast by the way, that's the problem. That's what the BBC are being told off for.

But no, I guess the puir wee soul was tired. And its the SNP that get blamed for finding excuses and scapegoats...

Well someone was gunning for her? Someone reported her. Nice distraction from Nicola being found by the committee to have mislead parliament.
And we're off again. We'll never agree so I'm not planning on engaging further on this topic.

Dear me.

Yes, it's the people reporting bad behaviour who are at fault, not the people actually behaving badly. Then the independent regulators find against them just them to be nasty.

I don't expect that you'll agree with me Aveline, but maybe any disinterested people who are reading this will appreciate that not everything they hear on the BBC about Scotland is correct and that reporters can be misleading, even though they protest loudly that they're not.

Seems to me that the SNP are the new nasty party.

Does it? Do tell.