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

 

WaPo Columnist: GOP the ‘Party of Jefferson Davis,’ Not of Lincoln

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Salon Columnist: Right Shouldn't Gloat Over Rolling Stone 'Debacle'

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Nation Writer: ‘Wisconsin Badgers Deserve Better Than Scott Walker'

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Writer: ‘Horrifying’ Ideas on Display in GOP Presidential Primaries

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Rutgers Professor: The Religious Right’s God Is an ‘A**hole’

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Ezra Klein: Noah, Wilmore Represent ‘Post-Obama Liberalism'

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Blogger: ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ Not to Report GOP Is 'Demented'

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Salon Columnist: New Daily Show Host Will Face Right-Wing ‘Backlash'

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Lefty Writer: Is Francis Catholic? Yes (Unlike Some Recent Popes)

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President Michael Moore Would Cut Pentagon Budget By 75 Percent

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Reviewer Objects That Play Doesn't Portray Scalia As ‘Bigoted Bully'

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New Republic Writer: Cruz's Goal Is ‘White Voter Shock and Awe'

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Nation Columnist: Right-Wing Pundits Seek to ‘Undermine Our Democracy'

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Lefty Blogger on Cruz Candidacy: ‘Is This Guy Freaking Kidding?’

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Salon: GOP, Likud, and ‘Iranian Right’ Have ‘Fanaticism’ In Common

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New Republic Writer: The Word ‘Taxpayer’ Has a Right-Wing Bias

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New York Magazine: America Now the Shining (Liberal) City Upon a Hill

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Lefty Bloggers Snipe at GOP’s ‘Cult of Reagan’ and Its ‘Fanaticism’

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Vox’s Ezra Klein: ‘Al Gore Should Run For President’

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Blogger: Conservatives ‘Marinate’ in ‘Rancid Stew’ of Obama-Hatred

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