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

 

Jon Stewart's Not Liberal Enough For Barney Frank or Salon

Tom Johnson
December 24th, 2014 11:56 AM
 

Daily Kos: Conservatism = ‘War on the Whole Idea of Governing’

Tom Johnson
December 21st, 2014 10:56 PM
 

Nation Writer: Colbert Showed 'How Right-Wing Psychology Works'

Tom Johnson
December 19th, 2014 10:10 PM
 

Kos: Mostly ‘Crusty Old F*cks’ Back U.S. Embargo Against Cuba

Tom Johnson
December 18th, 2014 9:51 PM
 

Lefty Blogger Roots For End of ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Embargo Against Cuba

Tom Johnson
December 18th, 2014 1:03 AM
 

Blogger: Cheney, Other ‘Elites’ Help Make GOP the ‘Torture Party’

Tom Johnson
December 17th, 2014 11:57 AM
 

Lefty Professor: Colbert Reclaimed Patriotism For Liberals

Tom Johnson
December 14th, 2014 7:20 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: The Right Wants to Write Obama Out of History

Tom Johnson
December 13th, 2014 2:32 PM
 

Blogger: Conservatives Can’t See That Sharpton’s No Longer ‘Radical'

Tom Johnson
December 11th, 2014 9:37 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: Right-Wing ‘Nonsense’ About Gruber Confused Public

Tom Johnson
December 10th, 2014 6:03 PM
 

Blogger: Grubergate a ‘Brand-Name Controversy Like Benghazi’

Tom Johnson
December 9th, 2014 10:38 AM
 

Professor: Righty Hillary Biographers ‘Shrill...Caught in Her Grip'

Tom Johnson
December 7th, 2014 3:06 PM
 

Salon: Ben Carson’s Views ‘Inspire Revulsion’ in Non-Conservatives

Tom Johnson
December 5th, 2014 9:57 PM
 

Blogger: Beware DOD Whitewash of U.S.-Caused Vietnam ‘Horror’

Tom Johnson
December 4th, 2014 11:19 AM
 

Lefty Writer John Judis: Ferguson Grand Jury ‘Did the Right Thing’

Tom Johnson
December 2nd, 2014 9:44 PM
 

Chris Rock: Obama’s Still Had 'A Hall of Fame Career'

Tom Johnson
December 1st, 2014 2:47 PM
 

New Yorker Writer: Pro-Life = ‘Misogyny, Cruelty, and Superstition’

Tom Johnson
November 29th, 2014 4:17 PM
 

Actor Pushes Blog: Conservatism a ‘Cult’ That’s About Power, Not Facts

Tom Johnson
November 28th, 2014 4:13 PM
 

Lefty Writer: 'Hard to Imagine' Reagan Beating Carter in ‘76

Tom Johnson
November 26th, 2014 1:04 PM
 

Bloggers Blast GOP’s Benghazi ‘Bullsh*t,’ ‘Manufactured Outrage’

Tom Johnson
November 24th, 2014 10:11 PM