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Slow News / Good News: Inside the Flick-Scroll Feed That’s Hijacking Your Soul!
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Slow News / Good News: Inside the Flick-Scroll Feed That’s Hijacking Your Soul!

Forget about breaking the internet. Be worried about breaking your brain. Escape the flick-scroll rabbit hole — and reclaim peace through intentional living.
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In This Edition

  • We start with a headline in the form of a question: what happens when speed, volume, and outrage replace memory, meaning, and fact?

  • In an era hooked on push alerts and instant takes, we’re slowing the tempo to examine how the flick-scroll feed itself became the nightmare.

  • From the birth of 24-hour news to the rise of churnalism, it’s reporting built for people who think in paragraphs, not taps and swipes.


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Production Credits

Creator / Writer / Presenter: Angelino Schintu
Produced, Recorded & Engineered at: Fushigi Labs Tokyo
Opening & Closing Voice / Audio Production: Thomas Kinkaid
Theme Music: Original composition Fushigi by Andrew P Partington


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Angelino Schintu is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker based in Japan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Fushigi Times — an independent Slow Media platform offering bold, reality-grounded perspectives on global affairs, cultural explorations, and creative thought.

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