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

Tom Johnson
September 14th, 2015 4:45 PM
 

Blogger: Reporters Self-Conscious About Meager Religious Knowledge

Tom Johnson
September 13th, 2015 1:23 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 12th, 2015 12:41 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 9th, 2015 9:56 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 7th, 2015 8:53 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 6th, 2015 2:40 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 5th, 2015 1:26 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: ‘Unreasoning Fear’ Starts to Swamp GOP

Tom Johnson
September 4th, 2015 2:27 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 2nd, 2015 9:21 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
September 1st, 2015 9:42 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 30th, 2015 8:33 PM
 

Bloggers Blast Righty ‘Hysteria’ Over Political Correctness

Tom Johnson
August 29th, 2015 1:55 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 28th, 2015 5:55 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 27th, 2015 10:46 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 25th, 2015 9:51 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 25th, 2015 12:24 AM
 

Salon Writer: GOP ‘Actively Embraces White Supremacy’

Tom Johnson
August 23rd, 2015 12:39 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 21st, 2015 4:33 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 20th, 2015 10:48 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 19th, 2015 12:11 PM