You're painting this as a "Obama eats a ham sandwich" story, but I think there's a big-picture trend that you're missing. The news is of interest to HN because

You're painting this as a "Obama eats a ham sandwich" story, but I think there's a big-picture trend that you're missing. The news is of interest to HN because it's a sign of how the Internet and social media continues to have an ever-rising impact on major world politics. To put it another way, are Twitter and Facebook and Reddit just procrastination engines, or might they be important, world-changing tools? Stories like this help answer that question.