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

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

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

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

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

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Frank Rich: Conservatives Wildly Exaggerate Williams’s Liberalism

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

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Lefty Blogger Calls Scott Walker a ‘Republican Porn Star’

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

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

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

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

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New Republic Writer: Anti-Vaxxers a Problem For GOP

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Daily Kos: Conservatives Have a Persecution Complex

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

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

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

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

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

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

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