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.
(..) The silence before you strike... and the noise afterwards, it rises- it rises up like- Like th- Like- Like a storm... as if you were the thunder god himself. - You were a gladiator? - Yes, I was. You won your freedom? (..)2000 Gladiator