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

 

Daily Beast Writer: Gay-Rights Movement ‘The Real Moral Majority’

Tom Johnson
May 8th, 2015 6:10 PM
 

Nation Writer: Fiorina’s As Bad As Any Man On Women’s Issues

Tom Johnson
May 6th, 2015 9:32 PM
 

Joan Walsh: On Race and Poverty, GOP Favors ‘Zombie Reaganism’

Tom Johnson
May 6th, 2015 11:25 AM
 

Salon Writer: Candidate Carson Will ‘Make…a Fool of Himself’

Tom Johnson
May 4th, 2015 9:18 PM
 

New Republic Writer: Left Caved, Baltimore Paid Price

Tom Johnson
May 2nd, 2015 1:59 PM
 

Kos: Success of Apple ‘Lays Waste to Conservative Ideology’

Tom Johnson
April 30th, 2015 6:06 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: ‘Systemic Racism of America’ Unchanged Since 1870s

Tom Johnson
April 29th, 2015 10:51 AM
 

Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘Disrespect’ For Baltimore Cops Warranted

Tom Johnson
April 28th, 2015 1:08 PM
 

Ezra Klein: Real, ‘Angry’ Obama Emerges at WHCD

Tom Johnson
April 27th, 2015 5:17 PM
 

Professors: Media Enable Republicans to ‘Cripple’ Government

Tom Johnson
April 24th, 2015 3:02 PM
 

Salon Pundit: Walker’s Rightward Shift on Immigration a Big Mistake

Tom Johnson
April 22nd, 2015 9:24 PM
 

Atheist Writer Gripes About Religious ‘Nitwits’ Running For President

Tom Johnson
April 20th, 2015 9:23 PM
 

Jon Stewart: Fox News ‘Steeped in Distortion and Ignorance’

Tom Johnson
April 19th, 2015 12:12 PM
 

Lefty Writer: This Time, Hillary’s ‘Unabashedly Liberal’

Tom Johnson
April 17th, 2015 9:55 PM
 

Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky: The GOP ‘Wants to Be Stupid’

Tom Johnson
April 16th, 2015 12:10 AM
 

New Republic Writer’s Dream Ticket: Hillary-Obama

Tom Johnson
April 14th, 2015 9:50 PM
 

Blogger: ‘Easy’ Choice Between Hillary and a ‘Barking-Mad’ Republican

Tom Johnson
April 14th, 2015 12:22 AM
 

Amanda Marcotte: Voters Would ‘Swoon’ Over ‘Ass-Kicking Hillary’

Tom Johnson
April 13th, 2015 1:38 PM
 

Blogger: Scott Walker a ‘Scoundrel,’ and GOP Base Is Fine With That

Tom Johnson
April 11th, 2015 11:33 PM
 

Lefty Blogger Blasts GOP’s Thirty-Plus Years of ‘Crackpot Economics’

Tom Johnson
April 10th, 2015 10:03 PM