Thursday 14 January 2016

More anon-sourced blame-deflecting from Hugh Sykes?


Pace DB:


Here's the BBC's Hugh Sykes:


So let's get this straight....

Hugh meets a (nameless) woman at a demonstration and immediately decides, simply on the basis of his brief encounter, that she's an "honest woman". 

As Hugh 'knows for a fact' that she's an "honest woman" (despite not really knowing her), we're obviously supposed to take her unverified tale about a "Pegida man" (saying something unbelievably disgusting) on trust.

Really?

Now, if this anecdote ends up as part of a broadcast report from Hugh Sykes, then we'll be able to ask the following question: Is this what BBC journalism has sunk to these day?

Anyhow, "honest" now joins the word "respected" in Hugh's lexicon of anonymous authority.

7 comments:

  1. Hugh Sykes seems to have passed from the profession of journalism to something like that of the old fisherman on the beach who tells tales of mermaids and sea serpents.

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  2. This is getting really silly now. I'm beginning to wonder if Hugh's alright.

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  3. Seems quoting sauces.... sorry, sauces... all the rage.

    https://twitter.com/thei100/status/687911882229821440

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  4. So Sykes says he met a woman, who said she's met a maan, who'd said something about German men...
    This is a 4th hand account, and he's claiming it's news?

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  5. Err, and somehow this mystery McDonaalds man was able to reply to Sykes' point about Thailand even tho they had never met???

    Liar Sykes. You f*cking liar!!

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  6. Seem to recall when politicians "quote" ordinary folk who support their views, the BBC's finest tend to be a tad cynical.

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  7. That's our Hugh Sykes, always trying to deny the unwashed, knuckle-dragging masses permission for prejudice. Is journalism about anything else these days?

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