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’

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

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

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

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New Republic Writer: Left Caved, Baltimore Paid Price

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

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

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

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

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Professors: Media Enable Republicans to ‘Cripple’ Government

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

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Atheist Writer Gripes About Religious ‘Nitwits’ Running For President

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

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

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

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New Republic Writer’s Dream Ticket: Hillary-Obama

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

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

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

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

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