They've been undercounting Occupy LA all the time.  That's when they weren't openly mocking it on their blog.

When it comes to covering protests, they're profesional liars.

There was an event about immigration, a right wing event, in OC years ago.  A crowd of pro-immigrant groups showed up to protest.  Things got crazy, and the cops aggressively attacked, and hit some people, almost trampled them with horses.  The right-wingers also got pretty vocal too.

The LA Times minimized the numbers on both sides, and also moderated each sides message to make it seem less like an intense disagreement, and more like out-of-control kids.

Later, on the forums of both sides, people were griping about the misleading coverage.  The two sides could not agree about immigration, but they both agreed that the LA Times was wrong.

Then this happened again with the same two sides and a city council meeting!

See the pattern?  They like to keep a lid on protest.  They like to paint a picture of LA being fine and dandy, without suffering.

The reason why is simple - their readership and target audience are the top 25% to 10% of LA society. Sometimes they tilt conservative, more often they tilt a little liberal, but they always tilt upper-middle-class.  It's not a working person's paper at all.

Nothing to fear but fear itself.

You forgot the police in activist clothing, and the 1% corporate toads in "moderate" and consumerist clothing.