NYC Peace Activists Risk Arrest Protesting Media Bias

"Hundreds of chanting demonstrators lined Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Thursday, and dozens lay down in the street in a 'die-in' to protest the war. ... Anti-war groups also called for other civil disobedience in the city to protest media and corporate 'profiteering from the war.' ... Some protest signs were directed at the media. One protester held a sign showing a picture of parrots and the words, 'Don't Parrot the Right-wing Propaganda.' Another, 44-year-old teacher Lee Whiting, held up a sign that said, 'Embedded? or In Bed?' Embedded, she said, means 'journalists are presenting almost exclusively the military view of this war.' Police and security officers placed a web of barricades at the adjacent Rockefeller Center, home of the GE Building, NBC and The Associated Press, to prevent the protesters from staging their 'die-in" there."