Well, it is one of the most surprising results in the past century. It's not like this is an "x cures cancer/AIDS/the common cold/obesity" which reporters love

Well, it is one of the most surprising results in the past century. It's not like this is an "x cures cancer/AIDS/the common cold/obesity" which reporters love to overstate, and which can easily be overstated because of how vague things like "obesity" and "cures" can be. In this case, it's "this fact that we've believed to be completely fundamental to physics for the past century appears to be wrong," and if you stated that without asking for people to check your work carefully because you are puzzled too, people are going to laugh at you if it turns out that you were wrong somehow. I'm not sure how you really could report this without downplaying it; it's just too incredible a claim for people to believe if you did anything close to overstating it.