Tom Johnson

Contributing Writer

Tom Johnson covers mostly websites (e.g., Salon, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos) for NewsBusters. He blogged frequently for the site from 2005 until 2007 and has been a regular contributor since 2011. From 1989 until 2002, he was an entertainment analyst for the Media Research Center and its spinoff, the Parents Television Council. From July 2004 until June 2005, he monitored National Public Radio for the MRC.

Latest Blogs

 

New Republic Writer: Conservatives Don’t Care About Carson’s ‘Honesty’

Tom Johnson
November 7th, 2015 11:26 AM
 

Lefty Blogger: GOP Primary Process a ‘Travelling Medicine Show’

Tom Johnson
November 5th, 2015 6:18 PM
 

New Republic Writer: Conservatives Increasingly Like a ‘Sect’

Tom Johnson
November 4th, 2015 9:14 PM
 

Blogger Backs ‘Day of Mourning’ For Anniversary of Reagan’s Election

Tom Johnson
November 3rd, 2015 9:41 PM
 

Joan Walsh: GOP ‘Running Against Reality, Not Against the Democrats’

Tom Johnson
November 2nd, 2015 9:19 PM
 

Lefty Professor: ‘Transparency Threatens’ the Power of Conservatives

Tom Johnson
November 1st, 2015 2:16 PM
 

Blogger Kevin Drum: ‘Virtually No Scandal’ In Obama White House

Tom Johnson
October 31st, 2015 6:34 PM
 

Frank Rich: Jeb Had Uphill Task After Dad, Dubya Helped Wreck GOP

Tom Johnson
October 30th, 2015 9:21 PM
 

Blogger: I’ll Buy Harwood a Beer For Questioning Rubio on Taxes

Tom Johnson
October 29th, 2015 5:38 PM
 

Daily Beast Pundit: Carson ‘Brilliant’ Surgeon But a 'Political Idiot'

Tom Johnson
October 28th, 2015 11:31 AM
 

Lefty Writer: Ben Carson ‘Has Betrayed the Black Freedom Struggle’

Tom Johnson
October 27th, 2015 10:44 AM
 

Salon Writer: GOP Has Made MSM a ‘Tacit Ally’ of Righty Extremism

Tom Johnson
October 25th, 2015 3:17 PM
 

Amanda Marcotte: Paul Ryan Thinks Family Life’s Only For the Rich

Tom Johnson
October 24th, 2015 9:49 PM
 

Blogger: Benghazi Hearing ‘Soft Porn For Conservative Activists'

Tom Johnson
October 23rd, 2015 2:50 PM
 

Lefty Blogger Charles Pierce: Dick Cheney, America’s Goering

Tom Johnson
October 22nd, 2015 9:52 PM
 

Lefty Pundit: We Need the Gun-Control Equivalent of Obamacare

Tom Johnson
October 21st, 2015 9:21 PM
 

Lefty Prof: Ben Carson the ‘Antithesis of the Civil Rights Struggle'

Tom Johnson
October 20th, 2015 9:54 PM
 

Amanda Marcotte: Right-Wingers Resisting Politically Correct GOP

Tom Johnson
October 19th, 2015 10:53 AM
 

Maddow Producer: Investigate the Benghazi Committee’s ‘Farce’

Tom Johnson
October 17th, 2015 4:45 PM
 

Matt Taibbi: ‘Next Step Down’ From Fox News Is ‘The Third Reich’

Tom Johnson
October 16th, 2015 12:25 PM