{"id":1422101,"date":"2022-04-06T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422101"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:00:25","slug":"former-media-matters-senior-fellow-eric-boehlert-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-media-matters-senior-fellow-eric-boehlert-dies-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert Dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-media-matters-senior-fellow-eric-boehlert-dies-at-56%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>JOURNALIST and well-known media critic Eric Boehlert has died after being involved in a bicycle accident as fellow writers pay tribute to the author.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boehlert tragically passed away on Monday night after being struck by a train in Montclair, New Jersey, the author&#8217;s wife, Jane, confirmed to The US Sun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\">\n<div class=\"article__media-img-container open-gallery\" data-index=\"83916\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/18188432\/eric-boehlert-journalist-dead-bike-accident\/#\"><\/a><\/div><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span class=\"article__media-span\">Writer and well-known media critic Eric Boehlert has passed away<\/span><span class=\"article__credit\">Credit: CNN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A &#8220;fierce defender of journalism,&#8221; Mr. Boehlert was a renowned media critic, writer and founder of Press Run.<\/p>\n<p>Jane described her husband as the &#8220;kindest, elegant, generous and one of the coolest guys you will ever meet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his work at Press Run, Boehlert was a senior fellow at Media Matters for America for 10 years and a staff writer for Salon for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, he wrote about the music industry as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and as a staff writer at Billboard.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news on this story keep checking back at Sun Online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-sun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The-sun.com<\/a>\u00a0is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, sports news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video.<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheSunUS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.facebook.com\/TheSunUS<\/a>\u00a0and follow us from our main Twitter account at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSunUS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@TheUSSun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-boxout\">\n<div class=\"article-boxout__header t-p-background-color\">\n<h3 class=\"article-boxout__headline\">We pay for your stories!<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-boxout__content theme__background-color-rgba-20\">\n<p class=\"article__content--intro\">Do you have a story for The US Sun team?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURNALIST and well-known media critic Eric Boehlert has died after being involved in a bicycle accident as fellow writers pay tribute to the author.Mr. Boehlert tragically passed away on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}