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

Amanda Marcotte: GOP ‘Clowns’ Are ‘Honking Their Noses’ Over Iran Deal

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Blogger: Reporters Self-Conscious About Meager Religious Knowledge

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Maddow Producer: GOP ‘Abandoned Rational Thought’ on Iran Deal

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Nation Writer: Trump, Redskins Owner Exploit ‘White Anxiety’

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Writer: Some Favor Trump Because He’s ‘A Bullying White Man’

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Kos Calls Trump ‘The GOP's Homegrown Vladimir Putin’

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Salon Writer: Freddy Krueger Antidote to ‘Repressed’ Reagan Era

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Lefty Blogger: ‘Unreasoning Fear’ Starts to Swamp GOP

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Daily Beast: Hillary Can Expose Benghazi Committee As ‘A Fraud’

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Vox Lauds Obama Comment That’s ‘Likely to Enrage Conservatives’

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Lefty Blogger: GOP Split Between ‘Stormtroopers’ and ‘Ruffians’

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Bloggers Blast Righty ‘Hysteria’ Over Political Correctness

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New Yorker Writer: Guns 'Have an Almost Entirely Symbolic Function'

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Amanda Marcotte: For Righty Media, an Assertive Woman = Darth Vader

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Salon Pundit: Media Assist GOP’s ‘Dirty Work’ on Hillary E-Mail Story

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Blogger: Right Doesn’t Care About ‘Evidence or Empirical Results’

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Salon Writer: GOP ‘Actively Embraces White Supremacy’

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Vox Writer: Pregnancy a Type of ‘Living Organ Donation’

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Blogger: On Health Care, GOPers Just 'Acting' Like They Care

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Blogger: Right Says 14th Am. Covers Only ‘Corporations and Fetuses'

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