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

Jonathan Alter: Trump ‘Far Sleazier Than Hillary’

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Blogger: PP Videos Show Only ‘A Failed Attempt at a Sting’

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Blogger: Trump a Product of the ‘Loud…Stupid’ Reagan Era

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Blogger: ‘Right-Wing Republicans’ Will Heckle Pope Francis

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Lefty Columnist: ‘F**k-You Republicans’ Taking Over GOP

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Nation Writer’s Dream Debate Moderator: Ralph Nader

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Blogger: Women Can Normalize Abortion By Saying They’ve Had One

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Blogger: Trump Voices GOP Base’s ‘Undifferentiated Resentment’

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Lefty Blogger: GOP Base Buying Trump’s ‘Purer Brand of Crazy’

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Salon Writer: ‘Jon Stewart Felt Like a Messiah’

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Vox Writer: Fewer Reporters ‘Sand Down’ GOP’s Extremism

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Lefty Blogger: Angry, Armed GOP Base Mounting an ‘Insurgency’

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Camille Paglia: Hillary May Pay at Polls For Trashing Monica

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Some Liberals Fear Planned Parenthood Might Be the New ACORN

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Professor: Stewart Exposed Right’s ‘Twisted Thinking’ and ‘Hubris’

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Atlantic Writer: Ignoring Truth ‘Helps the GOP to Fire Up the Base'

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New York Magazine: Many GOPers Candidates in Name Only

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Salon Writer: GOP ‘Seeks to Roll Back…the Entire Enlightenment’

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Author Rick Perlstein: ‘Conservatism Is Like Bigotry Whack-a-Mole’

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Lefty Blogger On Chattanooga Shooter: ‘His Motivation Doesn't Matter’

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