Longtime media critic and former Every day Kos contributor Eric Boehlert has died on the age of 57 after a tragic bike accident in New Jersey.
Soledad O’Brien broke the information on Twitter.
Boehlert was a media analyst who constantly challenged the narratives propagated by conventional media. He launched his Press Run publication in early 2020 and drew widespread reward for his efforts to carry the media accountable.
Boehlert was well-known within the running a blog group. He was a senior fellow at Media Issues for 10 years. He wrote Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press in 2009.
Boehlert joined the Every day Kos group in 2007 and later develop into an everyday contributor as a media analyst. His remaining contribution at Every day Kos was a blistering critique of the media’s incapability to carry Donald Trump accountable, titled: “2019, the yr the press tried—and failed—to face as much as Trump.” That was simply one of many many insights he delivered to our viewers and elsewhere.
Extra not too long ago Eric Boehlert was a visitor on Daily Kos’ The Brief: Has the political press learned anything in its coverage of the Trump Republican Party?
You may see his full Every day Kos historical past of thought-provoking media critiques right here.
His remaining publish at Press Run was Why is the press rooting against Biden?
The information of Eric Boehlert’s dying is reverberating across the web and there shall be extra to say in time, however let’s maintain Eric’s household and buddies in our ideas for a second.
