NY Times Biased Against Wall Street Protesters?

The NY Times is being called out for a somewhat slanted re-write of the lede to an article about the arrest of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters. The image below has gone viral on social media sites:

In fairness to the paper, the story in question, which has since been updated and gained another byline, is reasonably balanced.

Los Angeles held a sister protest downtown on Saturday. The LA Times covered the “Occupy LA” march with a story

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