One Of 'The Only Media Critics Who Mattered' Has Died.

Eric Boehlert, the guy behind 'Press Run' has died.

One of the other US'ian media critics who matters, Charles Pierce, has this to say:

...Eric Boehlert, who fashioned for himself a career as one of the only media critics who really mattered, was killed while riding his bike through his beloved New Jersey suburbs. He was 57, but his spirit was decades younger and his wisdom was decades older, and that’s just the way that was, too...

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...He was gloriously unimpressed by reputations. He was the implacable foe of journalistic laziness in all its forms, especially as expressed through access journalism and the reportorial arch-heresy of Both Siderism. Take him all in all, he was something of a proud throwback to what the craft of journalism ought to be. It pains me as a professional to know that a lot of famous yahoos are going to get a freer ride now that he’s gone, although I feel certain that the likes of Dan Froomkin and Margaret Sullivan—and, in its own little way, this shebeen—will carry on his work as best we all can...


Regarding that last bit from Mr. Pierce...

I would only add that someone should, maybe, roll Jay Rosen in bubble-wrap for the duration.



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