When News Broke

The podcast "The Sunday Story" features an excerpt from the "Engines of Outrage" miniseries, which is part of the Landslide podcast. The segment explores the polarization of news consumption in America and how it has led to separate information bubbles with conflicting views on the same events. It traces the roots of this division back to the Nixon administration and Spiro Agnew's attacks on the media, the rise of right-wing media through figures like Richard Vigoury and Rush Limbaugh, and the impact of cable television on news consumption. The podcast discusses how these factors contributed to a decline in trust in mainstream media and the proliferation of partisan narratives.