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Ben Horowitz tweets, "These annotations have completely convinced me that Newsweek blew the story."

Does this mean that Newsweek was correct, and was the first to the scoop? Or does this mean that Newsweek blew it, got the story wrong?

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    Most likely the second, since that's a far more common usage than a possible shortening of "blew [the lid on] the story", which is the only other credible reading I can see. But I'd have thought the intended meaning should be obvious in context. If you're asking about that single tweet, surely the issue must interest you enough to know that context.
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 15:59

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  • Blow the lid off a story = good (first to report)
  • Blow a story = bad (get the facts or perspective wrong)

I leave the puerile wisecracks for the comments.

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