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

Lefty Blogger Charles Pierce Likens Dick Cheney to Pol Pot

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Blogger: Limbaugh ‘Distracted the Masses’ While the Rich Stole

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Daily Beast Writer: Gay Marriage Could Be a ‘Liberal Wedge Issue’

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Amanda Marcotte: Duggar Scandal Contains Lesson For GOP

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Writer: Michelle Obama Breaks Right’s ‘Rules of Racial Discourse’

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Lefty Bloggers: Case Against Obamacare ‘Idiotic,’ ‘Preposterous’

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Salon: ‘The U.S. Military Is a National Security Threat’

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Blogger: Current GOP Lawmakers ‘Dumbest We've Ever Had’

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Ezra Klein: Voters Will ‘Eventually Punish’ Obamacare Opponents

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Kos: Hillary’s Attitude Toward MSM Should Be ‘F**k Them’

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Blogger: Clintons and Right-Wingers ‘Feed On Each Other’

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Slate Writer: In Near Future, GOP Younger, Less Conservative

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Lefty Critic: ‘David Letterman + Ronald Reagan = Ted Cruz’

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Salon: GOP Will 'Miss George Stephanopoulos' As Debate Moderator

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Lefty Blogger on Stephanopoulos Donations: ‘So What?’

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Blogger: GOP Has No ‘Usable Past’ (Not Even Reagan)

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Lefty Blogger: Major Abrahamic Religions = War

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Lefty Blogger: Jade Helm Protesters ‘Punking the National Media’

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Nation Writer: America ‘Severely Corrupted’ By Right-Wing Money

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Blogger: Increasingly Diverse America ‘Profoundly Unsettling’ to Right

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