The news caused a mini-firestorm on Forbes and elsewhere as people became worried about the secretive nature of the bans, and the implications behind Reddit administrators wielding that sort of power of a comparatively high-quality publication like The Atlantic.
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Oprah Winfrey's media empire is firing on all cylinders, after she beat back a firestorm of controversy by confronting author James Frey on the air over the myriad lies in his book A Million Little Pieces, which Winfrey had previously praised.
By contrast, any attempt to cut back on the federal promise to fund the Medicaid expansion would set off an instant political firestorm.
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Nobody in Congress had ever heard of a weapons program costing that much, so by the time senior Pentagon officials appeared at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 19 to explain the new cost estimates, they faced a firestorm of criticism.
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Based on past experience in places like the state of New York, a tool that prompts patients to start differentiating among doctors based on clinical criteria could create a political firestorm the Medicare agency is ill-equipped to handle.
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the storm-struck region, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, unleashed a firestorm of criticism at House Republicans for not addressing the measure as originally planned on Tuesday.
The firestorm that supposedly led to the impending collapse of E3 may have been brought on by a number of large exhibitors jumping ship, which caused smaller companies to do the same (we'll save the finger pointing for now).
The firestorm over a relatively minor change to user profiles illustrates the palpable influence of Facebook on its audience of more than 900 million users.
The firestorm over cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin has cardiologists at war with each other, congressmen on the attack, and the drug's makers on the defensive.
In 2007, Steven Nissen, chair of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, pooled studies found on that site to produce a New England Journal of Medicine article that started a firestorm of controversy around the pill, then the best-selling diabetes medicine in the world, that eventually resulted in its sales dropping to close to nothing.
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