The best way to tell what side of the aisle a media outlet is coming from is what sources they cite. It's rare that you'll see conservatives quoting from Dissent, Commonweal or the Nation. Similarly a liberal is not going to be regularly quoting from National Review, Commentary, or the Weekly Standard. The idea is fairly basic: You rarely quote people whose opinions you find unworthy of discussion.
That same phenomenon applies within the MSM corner of the blogosphere. Spending a few minutes in Google I was able to verify that right-leaning blogs almost never get quoted on Time's "Swampland" blog. Here are the numbers:
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