His racial comments 'kicked/whipped/stirred up a storm' in the newspapers. [=newspapers criticized his racial comments very strongly]
The college was quiet that morning, but it was 'the calm before the storm'. Thousands of students would arrive later.
Newspapers have 'weathered the storm' of online information by providing news online themselves.
(..) ' Why can't we both agree? ' Don't you know Ben Franklin wrote about this thing at length? ' On the proposition that in union there is strength ' Why raise a storm up if we'll just warm up? ' We'll be much stronger and live much longer ' Let's kiss and make up ' Come on, let's wake up (..)1957 Funny Face