Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Eric Boehlert is an American writer. He is also the published author of two books, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (2006), and Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Eric Boehlert was born on December 6, 1965, in Utica, in the state of New York.
- He grew up in Guilford, Connecticut, where he attended the Guilford High School.
- Eric then attended the University of Massachusetts, from where he graduated with a degree in Near Eastern studies with a focus on the Arabic language.
- Eric is married to his wife, Tracy Breslin. Together they have two children, one of whom is their son, Ben Boehlert, born on May 3, 2000.
- Eric currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey, with his family.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Eric spent three years working for Billboard.
- He then joined the ranks of Rolling Stone magazine, where he spent four years as a contributing editor.
- Following his jobs at Billboard and Rolling Stone, Eric became the senior writer for Salon, a role in which he remained for five years.
- He is currently a writer at The American Independent, formerly known as Shareblue Media, and Blue Nation Review, a liberal news website.
- Eric has published two books. In 2006, he published Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush, which focused on the author’s view of the media failing in its duties as a watchdog when it came to George Bush’s presidency.
- In 2009, he published Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press, which focused on the ever-rising and transformative influence of technology on political campaigns, as well as on the power of political blogs.
- Eric is also currently writing for Daily Kos, an internet forum focusing on the Democratic party.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Eric joined Media Matters for America in 2006, a liberal media watchdog group where he was a senior fellow.
- He is known for his progressive left articles.
- In 2002, he was awarded the Deems Taylor award for music journalism by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He received this accolade for a series of articles he wrote about the radio industry. The same series made it to the shortlist of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
- Eric is a fan of the Bostonian underground music band The Gravel Pit.
- He is also fond of his hometown’s famous beer – Utica Club.
- Eric follows the work of authors such as David Neiwert, Eric Alterman, Eric Klinenberg, Joe Conason, Jane Fleming Kleeb, Michelle Goldberg, Peter Beinart, Craig Unger, David Corn, and Thomas Frank.
- He enjoys seafood, the TV show Bob’s Burgers, and the work of fellow journalists such as Dan Rodricks, Nick Turse, Eric Zorn, Danny Schechter, Mike Allen, and Marc Ambinder.
- Eric is also a fan of director Michael Moore.
Why is it that when liberals die they are treated like the second coming?
Eric Boehlert Is a journalist that’s paid by George Soros to lie on multiple news websites…don’t listen to a word he says because he is steering you into a direction that’s very very dark. That’s the sad truth…yes journalists are allowed to lie so I say they have a degree in scum bakery when they lie for a living.
Want to thank Eric. This week is the 25th anniversary of the piece you wrote about us in RS Second Helping about Rock and Wrap It Up! We grew and have fed over 1 Billion people since 1991!
To Eric Boehlert,
I am a fan and I think a distant cousin. I was hoping to find out are you blood-relative to Sherry Boehlert, my dad’s second cousin?
I am Sandy Boehlert. Granddaughter of Carl Boehlert.