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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald now says Snowden's email is irrelevant after calling it the "biggest news" one day ago [View all]quakerboy
(13,920 posts)I dont get why you think it deserves a rolly laughing guy. In my experience one (I'm assuming based on length of the first quote) tweet is not exactly "hyping" anything. Did he write a big article or something saying the interview was important? If so that would change the meaning. But I didnt see any link to anything like that in the op.
Based on that assumption, the biggest news from a minor interview is not the same thing as something important. Based purely on the quotes, it would appear that Greenwald was doing exactly that. I'm not sure "damning with faint praise" is the right expression, but it looks like something similar.
Im struggling to come up with a useful example. If you will bear with me stretching a story to make a point, I think I can illustrate. If I got a ticket over for not signaling a turn, on a micro scale it might be the "biggest news" of my defense argument if I could show a video of me using my turn signal. But I might later say that on the macro scale, it was irrelevant whether I had signaled or not, given that the ticket came courtesy of a new traffic drone program that I believed was morally indefensible.