As China Girds for Olympics, New Violence: New York Times

I remember when one of my journalism professor said, "There is no truth on earth. What we got is different interpretations."
Indeed, people from different perspective can come to totally different conclusions from one single event.
If you were as unlucky as Chinese government, you might have someone in your life who is never ever happy about whatever you do.

The raid on a border armed police division, which killed 16 policemen and injured 16 others, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Monday morning, was suspected as a terrorist attack, according to local police.

The simple fact was somehow twisted into a well-planned plot to seize more control of the Chinese government by the New York Times.

The following sentence was the lead of the New York Times article:
BEIJING — Chinese officials have thrown an almost smothering blanket of security across this capital of 17 million in preparation for the start of the Olympic Games on Friday. Above all else, Chinese leaders say, these Olympics will be “safe.”


The experienced journalists put the most important infomation about the police attack into the second paragraph, which would only be read by no more than half of the readers. Is it a mistake, a coincidence or somehow a "must"?

As a student majored in journalism, I can't get a question out of my mind. When the U.S media boasted itself to be the fourth power, the fourth estate, is it really objective? or does it ever try to be objective.