Taking the right aim.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Bureaucracy - Brief article

Mark Leibovich is right that there is something wrong with the media's constant emphasis on the political effect of any action by the president or Congress. But he doesn't talk about what the media misses: namely, that it fails to find out what is happening in the bureaucracy--at the action points of government. The bureaucracy, after all, implements the programs advocated by the president and passed by Congress. On the Gulf oil spill for example, Leibovich brilliantly describes how This Town's...