The Importance of Allegation in Journalism

"I don't like it when people say allegedly in front of things that are patently facts," Brady says. "If a man is found dead with stab wounds, he's found death with stab wounds. Now who stabbed him and how it was done?" The downside to using the word allegedly wrong is Brady gets annoyed; the upside is they feel like they've covered themselves for anything that might be possibly wrong.