When you watch CNN, reporting news, of course you see facts being presented, a news organization cannot just make shit up (look what happened to Dan Rather). If you watch the G-Block on Fox, you will also see the news being reported. When you watch the O'Riley Factor, of course you're going to see more emotionally charged segments of news reported, because it's more of a news-talk-show. You get the same type of shit when you watch Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC or any number of other similar news shows on television.
I think the best way to decide which way a news network swings politically is to look at what they choose to report. I think the war in Iraq is a great example. When Bush was president, CNN's top story would be something like: 5 solders die in Iraq, or mass civilian casualties in Iraq, or the war in Iraq is failing miserably...etc. Fox News would report something like, least violence in Iraq for the past 2 months, Iraq achieves its first ever democratic election, top Al-Qaeda leader captured...etc.
Or you can look at how the report on the economy. For example, when Bush was president CNN would report, worst economic recession of all time, unemployment numbers reach 5 year high...etc. Now that Obama is president, Fox reports things like, biggest government deficit in the history of the presidency, Obama's stimulus plan is showing absolutely no effect...etc.
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