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’

Tom Johnson
August 17th, 2015 2:00 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 15th, 2015 4:04 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 13th, 2015 11:52 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 10th, 2015 9:09 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 9th, 2015 11:45 AM
 

Nation Writer’s Dream Debate Moderator: Ralph Nader

Tom Johnson
August 7th, 2015 8:45 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 6th, 2015 2:30 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 5th, 2015 10:58 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 3rd, 2015 8:52 PM
 

Salon Writer: ‘Jon Stewart Felt Like a Messiah’

Tom Johnson
August 2nd, 2015 11:09 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 31st, 2015 2:29 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 30th, 2015 1:00 PM
 

Camille Paglia: Hillary May Pay at Polls For Trashing Monica

Tom Johnson
July 28th, 2015 9:34 PM
 

Some Liberals Fear Planned Parenthood Might Be the New ACORN

Tom Johnson
July 26th, 2015 9:25 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 24th, 2015 5:45 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 22nd, 2015 11:12 AM
 

New York Magazine: Many GOPers Candidates in Name Only

Tom Johnson
July 20th, 2015 10:06 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 19th, 2015 5:39 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 18th, 2015 2:26 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 17th, 2015 1:34 PM