While the controversy triggered by the series continued to rage, Doyle holed up to spend more time with Family's most complicated, compromised character.
Its coverage of the Mitt Romney tax return controversy triggered 179 comments on The Daily vs 28,464 comments on the Huffington Post.
Some weeks before, he'd become embroiled in the Finegold controversy, triggered when he foolishly, somewhat tipsily, likened a Jewish reporter from the Evening Standard to a concentration camp guard.
The French government hopes the measure can bring an end to a legal and moral controversy triggered by the case of Nicolas Perruche, whose congenital defects became clear soon after his birth in January 1983.
Imagine a major final with all the scrutiny swirling around Davydenko, who is at the center of a match-fixing controversy triggered when a British Internet betting firm voided $7 million in wagers on one of his matches.
He had some weeks before become embroiled in the Finegold controversy, triggered when the mayor of London foolishly, somewhat tipsily, likened a Jewish reporter from the London Evening Standard to a concentration camp guard.
Still, the controversy triggered by Free Arabs is just the kind of debate Islamists and secularists in the Arab world should be having, if only because they couldn't have had it under the old regimes.
While the White House strived to contain the controversy triggered by the admission that Bin Laden had been unarmed when he was shot, President Obama prepared to build on the political benefits of the successful operation with a visit this morning to Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
And it is the waterboarding of Zubaydah that has now become the centre of fresh controversy triggered by Newsnight's investigation.
