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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lefty Professor: Colbert Reclaimed Patriotism For Liberals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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