It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Osgood humorously links a childhood paper route to a professional ethic: accuracy. The image of aiming for the porch rather than the bushes turns “accuracy” into something concrete and physical—getting the paper to the right place—before it becomes an abstract journalistic standard of getting facts right. The line suggests that precision is learned through practice and consequences, not merely preached as a rule. It also implies that journalism’s credibility depends on small, repeated acts of correctness, and that habits formed early—attention, care, and respect for the audience—carry into later reporting and broadcasting.