As I often do, I disagree with Tyson, the model may help us understand the origin or nature of the universe someday. It's just a model, but when a model can be tested or studied in some way, we generally tend to learn new, grand things about everything.

It's not sensational, because it doesn't say anything radical, other than show a very similar relationship between information systems in event horizons and the way our whole universe can be modeled as an information system.

Are you saying that he said that about this in particular or that it's a quote he says about loads of things? xD

On a side note: I don't think we should hate on DeGrasse Tyson, because hating on him seems to be a meme that's just gone too far. Isn't it rooted in a literal 4-chan greentext? But I think he's polite, nice, and the things people interpret as disingenuity are just his presenting quirks. Like the "tweeting the same mirror joke every month" actually has a more neat explanation.