FOLKS - News, Nuance & the 90s with Douglas Lytle
Guest: Douglas Lytle, Editor for Bloomberg Intelligence, former editor/reporter at Dow Jones, former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, former editor at Prague Post, author of Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers: An American in Prague
Douglas Lytle came to Prague in 1990 on something of a whim. The city and the country have since become a permanent part of his life. He talks about the news industry here, life in Prague in the 90s, Czech politics and culture, and more in this this part reminiscence, part analysis.
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SECTIONS
01:48 - Early Days in the Early 90s - teaching, Prognosis, Alan Levy & Prague Post
05:00 - Prague Post Takes Off, Making Ends Meet, Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers: An American in Prague
08:37 - Finding the Story, the Left Bank of the 90s, Prague vs. Budapest
13:50 - Americans Colonize Prague, Doug Leaves & Returns, CZ in Transition - Economics & Politics
19:13 - Coming to Understand the Czechs (a bit), the Battle of White Mountain, Small Country Syndrome
25:07 - Jára Cimrman & Mythmaking, Prague Embraces Cosmopolitanism
29:20 - Prague Continues to Change
32:48 - The Czech News Scene Today
36:50 - The Czechs Are Pretty Lucky but a Reckoning with Communism Is a Good Idea
39:52 - Frank Zappa Gives Advice
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
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See also
- Article about Prognosis by Jacques Poitras on Medium
- The Prague Moment, article on early 90s Prague by Equus Press
- Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
- Via The Left Bank of the '90s by John Bills
- Review in Variety of Nancy Bishop's 2004 film "Rex-patriates"
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