If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

ISBN 0-394-45025-6. Jones was subsequently sentenced to five days in jail (with the sentencing judge recommending that the sentence be served in the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office's work program rather than actually behind bars) to 200 hours of community service and to two years of probation. " While at the Times he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.