Eric Boehlert dies: Media critic for Media Matters & Salon, founder of Press Run newsletter killed in bike accident at 57

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Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America, Salon, Daily Kos and most recently as the founder of the Press Run website, died Monday in a bike accident. He was 57.

His death was announced on Twitter by journalist and friend Soledad O’Brien, who called Boehlert “a fierce and fearless defender of the truth.”

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