Commentary is not journalism, it is opinion.
Peter King, Woody Paige, Bill Williamson, etc. in sports. All 'journalists' in America but what we would call commentators over here.
Matt Taibbi. A damn fine writer on finance and politics but committed in a way which is not usually allowed over here. (John Pilger and Robert Fisk are a few of the rare UK examples I can think of over the years.)
American writing can be great. Kissing Suzy Kolber, for example, can have me laughing away over a sport that I haven't really followed since I was in Denver. But journalism, not as we know it, Scotty.
Let's not even get onto the shouty talking-head print journos on TV, hired for their most extreme opinions.
There are fine journalists at work (for example, I remember the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post coverage of sexual abuse in the military when I was there) but let's not pretend that all is sweetness and light and that US 'journalists' don't spin things their own way to write a good story or to serve whatever purposes they wish for.