[cookcounty]

"If the Telegraph was in the US, it would EASILY be the best US newspaper. It almost always plays it down the middle.

Yup. I don't like some of the stories they come up with, but they DO NOT have the herd mentality laziness that dominates American journalism. They are diggers at the Telegraph, and they will dig pretty much anywhere. Unlike American reporters, they don't seem obsessed with whether or not their leftist colleagues are likely to nominate them for the Pulitzer.

[OldDeckHand]

"but they DO NOT have the herd mentality laziness that dominates American journalism."

Yes, that is EXACTLY it. I wish I had put it that way. Sure, they write some pretty negative stories about the right, but they do the same for the left, which is really the only thing you could ask.