Oct 16, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
What is the state of journalism today, and where is it headed? At the Epoch Times Insider Forum, Bay Area Innovators host Steve Ispas caught up with past guests from the show, gathered under one roof…
Steve IspasHostFree Now Foundation GuestGuestSeema KaramiHostForum GuestGuestAnd I find that very unpleasant because so much of what you're reading every day is why the other side is bad.
And even when I agree with something, I just don't need to have my life filled with that repeated message.
And another aspect that I find today in journalism So much of it is about predicting what's going to happen tomorrow.
I'll make my own predictions because I know that their predictions are not really facts.
I mean, it's become a very divisive issue, which is unfortunate.
I mean, when I was in school, we took a class on journalism, and I will always remember this one part of the class.
They said, okay, you have to write a story.
Someone has died.
He was rumored to be a heavy drinker, and he could have been an alcoholic, and he had liver issues, but death was not determined.
What do you write in the story? And someone said, well, we write that alcoholism was probably contributed to death.
No.
You have no evidence.
You don't have evidence, you don't have fact, you don't report it.
And now it's like the tiniest little rumor and poof, it turns into a huge story.
And the problem with this is that journalism has changed because the drivers of journalism have changed.
If you think back to sort of when I was young, and I think you know this, I was a freelance writer for 10 years and I was really respected trying to get to the substantive truth underneath.
The papers were published and paid for by advertising and subscription.
Today, they're paid for by clicks.
And I find that very unpleasant because so much of what you're reading every day is why the other side is bad.
And even when I agree with something, I just don't need to have my life filled with that repeated message.
And another aspect that I find today in journalism So much of it is about predicting what's going to happen tomorrow.
I'll make my own predictions because I know that their predictions are not really facts.
I mean, it's become a very divisive issue, which is unfortunate.
I mean, when I was in school, we took a class on journalism, and I will always remember this one part of the class.
They said, okay, you have to write a story.
Someone has died.
He was rumored to be a heavy drinker, and he could have been an alcoholic, and he had liver issues, but death was not determined.
What do you write in the story? And someone said, well, we write that alcoholism was probably contributed to death.
No.
You have no evidence.
You don't have evidence, you don't have fact, you don't report it.
And now it's like the tiniest little rumor and poof, it turns into a huge story.
And the problem with this is that journalism has changed because the drivers of journalism have changed.
If you think back to sort of when I was young, and I think you know this, I was a freelance writer for 10 years and I was really respected trying to get to the substantive truth underneath.
The papers were published and paid for by advertising and subscription.
Today, they're paid for by clicks.
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