You can tell Occupy have the establishment worried because the media are focusing on individual personalities rather than what Occupy are saying.

During the time the media were forced to coverage Occupy they'd cluster round, for instance, one random antisemitic nutter who turned up at the camp. New York is chock full of random nutters, in some parts of Manhattan you can throw a stone and hit three of them, so some nutter attracted to all the cameras and action being filmed and being made the public face of Occupy tells you everything you need to know about this.

Like Assange and Snowden and others the focus is on the person, their personality and character and not what they've revealed/have to say.