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

 

Blogger: GOP Wants Dems to Sneer at Dropout Walker

Tom Johnson
February 18th, 2015 1:11 AM
 

Professor Blasts Conservatives’ ‘50-Year War’ on News Media

Tom Johnson
February 15th, 2015 2:10 PM
 

Amanda Marcotte: ACA Lawsuit Proves ‘Wingnut Wing’ Runs GOP

Tom Johnson
February 14th, 2015 2:08 PM
 

Salon TV Critic: Jon Stewart a ‘Liberal Organizer and Rallying Point’

Tom Johnson
February 13th, 2015 1:11 PM
 

New Yorker: Brokaw ‘Played a Key Role’ in Williams Suspension

Tom Johnson
February 11th, 2015 6:07 PM
 

Frank Rich: Conservatives Wildly Exaggerate Williams’s Liberalism

Tom Johnson
February 11th, 2015 11:43 AM
 

Vox: At Prayer Breakfast, Obama Rebuked Those Who ‘Hate Muslims’

Tom Johnson
February 10th, 2015 11:35 AM
 

Lefty Blogger Calls Scott Walker a ‘Republican Porn Star’

Tom Johnson
February 8th, 2015 9:40 PM
 

Blogger: Obama Should Host His Own ‘Inter-Faith’ Prayer Breakfast

Tom Johnson
February 7th, 2015 10:59 AM
 

Blogger: Obama ‘Laughing His Ass Off’ at Anti-Immigrant Republicans

Tom Johnson
February 5th, 2015 9:24 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: ‘The Anti-Vaccination Left Should…STFU’

Tom Johnson
February 4th, 2015 3:26 PM
 

Daily Beast Writer: ‘Stupid’ GOP Base Likes ‘Vacuous’ Scott Walker

Tom Johnson
February 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
 

New Republic Writer: Anti-Vaxxers a Problem For GOP

Tom Johnson
February 2nd, 2015 10:56 PM
 

Daily Kos: Conservatives Have a Persecution Complex

Tom Johnson
January 31st, 2015 3:42 PM
 

Scott Walker 'Almost...a Liberal Caricature of a Conservative Villain'

Tom Johnson
January 29th, 2015 10:10 PM
 

Daily Kos Writer: Obama’s Had It With Mainstream Media’s Lies

Tom Johnson
January 28th, 2015 12:01 PM
 

Lefty Professor: ‘American Sniper’ Delusional, Just Like the GOP

Tom Johnson
January 27th, 2015 11:25 AM
 

Salon Writer Lauds Jon Stewart’s ‘F**k You’ to Conservatives

Tom Johnson
January 25th, 2015 2:51 PM
 

Blogger: 'Bizarre' GOPer Take on Climate Change Should Disqualify Them

Tom Johnson
January 24th, 2015 2:13 PM
 

Salon: Obama’s SOTU Message Was ‘Bye-Bye, Reagan Conservatism’

Tom Johnson
January 22nd, 2015 9:46 PM