new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans in 2008 and 2011 about their media consumption and beliefs about climate change.

The results suggest that conservative media consumption (specifically Fox News and Rush Limbaugh) decreases viewer trust in scientists, which in turn decreases belief that global warming is happening. In contrast, consumption of non-conservative media (specifically ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, …

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A week and a half ago we had an unusually long shooting day on the show I’m currently producing, Jane by Design. The crew call time was at 7 a.m. and we wrapped at 10:46 p.m. — fourteen hours and 45 minutes after subtracting our one-hour lunch break. And some had an even longer day: Our actors, including guest star Teri Hatcher, showed up for hair and makeup at 5 am, which meant that hairstylists …

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(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal and civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice over offerings of mortgage-backed securities.

The civil division gave the company a notice in May that it had preliminarily concluded that the firm violated federal securities laws in offerings of subprime and Alt-A residential mortgage securities during 2005 to 2007, JPMorgan said.

JPMorgan said in the filing …

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GENEVA (AP) — Oprah Winfrey says she had a racist encounter while shopping in Switzerland — and the national tourist office and the shop owner have apologized.

The billionaire media mogul told the U.S. program “Entertainment Tonight” that a shop assistant in Zurich refused to show her a black handbag priced at $38,000 because “you will not be able to afford that.”

Forbes magazine estimates that Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in June.

Winfrey was …

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(Reuters) – The biggest political protests in Peru’s capital in more than a decade have pressured President Ollanta Humala to clean up government and share the benefits of the country’s decade-long economic boom.

Many of the protesters were left-leaning and middle-class youth who voted for Humala two years ago, but now they say he and other political leaders are dangerously out of touch.

A former military officer and one-time nationalist radical, Humala has pledged to ensure more …

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Texas-based Lavabit service has shut down but said legal reasons prevented it explaining why.

Correspondents say Lavabit appears to have been in a legal battle to stop US officials accessing customer details.

In addition, secure communications firm Silent Circle has shut its email service because messages cannot be kept wholly secret.
Web watchers

Mr Snowden, a former contractor to the American National Security Agency (NSA), has admitted leaking information about widespread US surveillance on electronic communications to the media.

He …

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“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.” — William Longgood
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After watching Markus Imhoof’s new film More Than Honey, the sound of bees will be like the sound of music to your ears. Bees are essential to humans, pollinating our crops far more efficiently than we could do ourselves, but in recent years the fatal trend of growing bee deaths has alarmed farmers, bee keepers, and environmentalists.

Shining a spotlight on what bees face is the new documentary More than …

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We’ll speak with Lisbeth Mateo, a member of the DREAM9 – a group of 9 young undocumented immigrant activists who turned themselves in at the US border to draw attention to the broken immigration system. And, an update on the California prisoner hunger strike as media reports claim strike organizers are in fact gang leaders – my guests will set the record straight. Plus, a third in our on-going series on the Women of Alexandria …

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Uprising’s Thursday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to The Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:

A group of 9 young undocumented immigrants raised in the US have won a major victory after being released from Eloy Detention Center …

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