"The Media are Cowards"

As more and more occupy protestors are arrested, the scene in LA proved to be another place where the media could have stepped up and used their rights to show the police brutality.  Actor Wil Wheaton a huge supporter of the Occupy movement and resident of LA was tweeting and retweeting sentiments from protestors and viewers who were watching protestors and the few citizen journalists (like victim @OakFoSho) being carted off and threatened by officers.

While this might not seem out of the ordinary from all of the Occupy news we've heard, the LAPD also blocked most press from being allowed in to the area, set up press approved areas and threatened to arrest any journalist out of the press pool.  Which resulted in this tweet

What's most disturbing isn't that the police but this press ban on, it's that the reporters then FOLLOWED it.  The fact that all these reporters have the chance to get the story and really make a difference.  More so they're openly giving up their rights as reporters.  They are just not doing their jobs on checking the power of government and this might be a time when citizen journalists are going to take hold of the media because trained journalists don't do their jobs.