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by Mark Silva

The FOX News Channel is not only the most-watched cable TV news channel. It's also the most ideological, in the view of Americans surveyed on the subject.

Nearly half of Americans surveyed -- 47 percent -- say they think of FOX News as "mostly conservative,'' according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.

Only 24 percent say they see FOX as neither conservative nor liberal.

At the same time, many view CNN and the three major broadcast TV networks as mostly liberal, yet about the same percentages say they are neither liberal nor conservative.

Somewhat more say MSNBC is mostly liberal -- 36 percent -- than those who say it is neither in particular -- 27 percent.

"The perceptions of those who regularly tune into these news networks are similar to those of the public,'' reports Andy Kohut, Pew Research Center president.

Nearly half (48 percent) of regular FOX viewers say the network is mostly conservative. About four-in-ten (41 percent) of the regular viewers of CNN describe the network as mostly liberal and 36 percent of regular MSNBC viewers say the same about that network.

Pew's latest News Interest Index survey, conducted Oct. 23-26 among 1,001 adults comes in the midst of a feud between the White House and FOX, with the White House likening FOX to an arm of the Republican Party, and FOX maintaining that it is a news network which also features opinionated commentators.

The feud has been good for business at FOX.

The Pew survey finds the public evenly split in its view of cable news hosts "having strong opinions about politics." About four-in-ten (42 percent) see this as a good thing, while an identical percentage sees it as a bad thing. See the full report.

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