All the news that's going to agree with our predetermined view of the world

It seems strange to me that the foreign news media and the Moonie Washington Times are reporting that the N. Korea test was a dud, but it's hard to find much of that in the U.S. mainstream media:

U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday.

U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast's readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation.

Yes, I know. There is an article on this deep in today's NY Times, but the first paragraph of the lede article on the front page of today's paper reads as follows:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — North Korea may be a starving, friendless, authoritarian nation of 23 million people, but its apparently successful explosion of a small nuclear device in the mountains above the town of Kilju on Monday represents a defiant bid for survival and respect. For Washington and its allies, it illuminates a failure of nearly two decades of atomic diplomacy. [My emphasis added]