it's considered in Europe to be a conservative German newspaper, and Germans, likely from the Americans feeding and giving resources to them directly after the war and protecting them through the Cold War, tend to view Americans nicer than some other Europeans, i.e. the French. British are sometimes supportive because they think a special relationship exists between the U.S. and the U.K.
Bull! Der Spiegel is THE magazine for the intellectual Left. The conservative/liberal weekly magazin is FOCUS.