Yes that is it, and the article makes it all sound so dramatic, I went there because the national coverage made it sound like it was a bubbling cauldron of danger and violence. I even thought that I would have to sneak into the city to penetrate the siege.
My last ride into the city was a businessman that picked me up, he laughed when I told him what the newscasts were showing and what America thought was taking place in DC. He said nothing much was going on and pointed out how some kids had pushed over some garbage cans to block a street but that all in all the kids were mostly polite and harmless.
It was also great fun to read the competing versions of things that you actually witnessed being reported on in the newspapers. Often we would read the most outrageous lies creating a dramatic story about something that never took place.
Hyperbole is the Worchestershire sauce of legend.