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.