The newspaper has been 'under siege' lately by its readers for printing a false story.
Angry taxpayers 'laid siege to' city hall with letters and phone calls.
Living in a high-crime area can create a 'siege mentality'.
(..) What soldiers, patch? The English force, so please you. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. The cry is still, "They come!" Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up. Doctor. The thanes fly from me. (..)2015 Macbeth