From a blog post by NBC news anchor Brian Williams:

...While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other side of the boulevard....

At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the media... armed only with notepads.... Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history....

So how long do you suppose it'll be before someone in authority takes a shot at some member of the press in New Orleans? Not at a big-name anchor, obviously -- maybe, say, at a wire-service soundman. ("I thought he was a looter!")

Paging Eason Jordan....

(Williams link via Talking Points Memo.)