The steady flow of briefings by the First Minister for Scotland seems to be having an impact. In recent opinion polls she is approved of by a majority of voters for all but Conservatives. Today at 1 and 6pm, two prominent female broadcasters could barely conceal their admiration for her leadership qualities. Later that night, Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy was clearly surprised and charmed by the way she engaged with his questions.
Last night, the BBC UK website too, seemed to recognises that her speech on how we might begin to come out, if only a little, of lock-down, was the most important news of the day.
BBC Scotland kept her in the place they see her in.
The opposition parties and their allies across the Scottish MSM, sense the danger she poses to them. It will be interesting and probably sickening to see to what depths they will sink.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Good Morning Scotland (surprisingly?) gave the reception to the FM’s speech a fair bit of uncritical coverage, including several praising responses, one from the unlikely figure of Mr Ian Duncan Smith. They actually read out tweets which were praising. Later there was an interview with Mr Murdo Fraser, MSP, the Tory Health Spokesperson. He adopted a line of trying to play down the impact of the speech. However, all credit to Gary Robertson, he challenged him on a number of occasions and pushed him into conceding things. It was actually how an interview should be conducted.
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Interesting. She makes it difficult for them in a way that sadly Alex didn’t.
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Even if she is 100 times better than any of Kim-Jonsun’s team her ‘best possible advice’ is utter bullshit and every day we have more and more scientists calling out this UK wide spin.
I am afraid she failed. She was a couple of days ahead of the Moron but that is no great feat.
John Ashworth has been extremely cautious about allocating blame (for now) but he could no longer contain himself.
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2020/20/april/our-most-explosive-interview-yet-with-professor-john-ashton-who-called-it-right-on-coronavirus-from-very-start
vice chair of the British Medical Association
and the strangest Guardian article which in the first part challenges that narrative ()many Scottish scientists) and then in the second gushes all over the gov advisers. Weird
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/scientists-criticise-uk-government-over-following-the-science
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Since i am probably the only one who can see inside my head, i shoulsd explain that my comment above and the Salmond scandal does not contradict my respect for her and her ability to make correct Covid-19 decisions now. I hope she does because the lock-down was the easy part.
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I would call NS method of handling all MSM is rather akin to
Batting straight down the middle,no matter what type of ball is bowled at her
By smart ass journalists who are blinded by their pay masters hysterics from the touchline
No matter how much spin they put on their questions or bounce or curve the ball
Nicola with consummate ease and total proffessialism has a natural skill set which can only increase the rabbid rants
From the sidelines and little do they realise that such is now leading to revelation of their wolves teeth
through the most appropriate clothing they are attired in that of SHEEP which they truly are
But i wisely remind them that more often than not that sheep are herded into a lorry at their masters will that the final destination is the Abatoir
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My take, for what it is worth, is that she is acted like an good leader of an provincial opposition UK party but not as the leader of a nation.
Not entirely surprising, as that is in many ways how the media looks at her but i want a leader of Scotland not a leader of a province of the UK.
I can’t help thinking this is to do with the psychology of being a colony of the UK.
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