"Occupy crowd vows to shut down city today," reported the Fox News ticker wrapping around the building.
As the Occupy crowd is all too aware, several corporations are now so big that many outperform countries in sheer economic terms.
That more ominous, revolutionary note hinted at some of the more radical views found among (if not universally endorsed by) the Occupy crowd.
Civil-liberties groups tend to talk about the First Amendment in near-absolutist terms, but there is no evidence that most New Yorkers agree with the Occupy crowd that they have a constitutionally assured right to pitch tents, spread sleeping bags and in effect turn city parks into round-the-clock shantytowns.
As demonstrators marched past the headquarters of News Corp, the Fox News ticker read: "May Day, May Day, May Day, police set to deal with Occupy crowd that vows to shut down the city", and "NYPD and big corporations braced for trouble".
Most of them are quite docile as it stands, but many of them are currently away at a rally, the Occupy crowd may grow as the day progresses.
That public intellectuals such as Naomi Klein and Slavoj Zizek and celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, and Deepak Chopra, among others, put in appearances with the Occupy crowd further raised the profile.
In an ad on Craigslist, MTV said it was hunting for a cast member for its flagship reality show The Real World among the Occupy crowd, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In 2001, the tournament added video screens to occupy the crowd and began piping in music.
As the workday ended, thousands of people began to flood the streets in support of the pro-democracy protesters, and the anti-Occupy crowd was soon outnumbered.
