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

Maddow Producer: Dumb Idea For GOP to Play Up Hillary’s Wealth

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Lefty Professor: Is Jon Stewart Giving In to Fox News ‘Bullies’?

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Amanda Marcotte: Scott Walker a Stealth ‘Woman-Basher’

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Salon: Cosby Show 'Enabled...Ugliest Reagan-Era Fantasies' on Race

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Slate Writer: Gay Marriage Part of ‘Lifestyle Conservatism’

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Pundit: GOP Base Broadcasts an ‘Ignorant, Garbled Howl’

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Lefty Blogger Likens 2016 GOP Win to a Global Gasoline Fire

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Salon Writer: The GOP, Home of ‘Unserious Candidates’ For President

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Lefty Blogger: Who’s the GOP’s Daddy? Not Lincoln

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Slate Writer: Trump Appeals Strongly to ‘Ugly and Angry’ GOP Base

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Lefty Blogger: Does Obama Want a Hillary-Walker Matchup?

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Blogger: Right-Wing ‘Mass Insanity’ Common During Obama Years

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New Republic: Obamacare Ruling Aside, SCOTUS ‘Plenty Conservative’

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New Yorker Writer: ‘Rational Thought’ Wins, Conservatives Lose

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Lefty Pundits Blast ‘Feeble,’ ‘Fringe’ Objections to Same-Sex Marriage

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Professor: GOP Likely to Remain ‘Unhinged’ For A Few More Years

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Blogger: VP Sanders Would Be ‘The Progressive Answer to Dick Cheney’

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Salon: Righty Economics ‘Has Trickled Down to Catholics In the Pews'

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Daily Beast Pundit: Scalia ‘Farted’ His Dissent in Obamacare Case

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Maddow Producer: Roberts’ Ruling ‘An Enormous Favor’ For GOP

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