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

 

Daily Kos: Dems Must Vote in Midterms to Stop GOP ‘Zombie Cult Army’

Tom Johnson
October 28th, 2014 9:42 PM
 

Blogger: Fox News the Result of ‘Largely Bogus’ Claims of Media Bias

Tom Johnson
October 27th, 2014 9:48 PM
 

New Republic Writer: ‘Voter Fraud Is a Right-Wing Superstition’

Tom Johnson
October 26th, 2014 2:01 PM
 

Charles Pierce: Taxpayer-Funded News Is Worth Every Penny

Tom Johnson
October 24th, 2014 1:24 PM
 

David Remnick: Ben Bradlee Was Not an ‘Ideological Man’

Tom Johnson
October 22nd, 2014 1:43 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: Annoy a Republican -- Make Voting Mandatory

Tom Johnson
October 21st, 2014 2:23 PM
 

Daily Kos: Public’s Fear, Stupidity Have Pushed America to the Right

Tom Johnson
October 20th, 2014 12:01 AM
 

Blogger Blasts GOP’s ‘Putrid Stew of Fear-Mongering’ Over Ebola

Tom Johnson
October 17th, 2014 9:17 PM
 

Charles Pierce: Wendy Davis Ad Shows Conservatism Is a ‘Sham’

Tom Johnson
October 15th, 2014 9:52 PM
 

Jonathan Chait: 'Paul Ryan Is a Nut’

Tom Johnson
October 14th, 2014 9:14 PM
 

Lefty Writer: Michael Brown, Trayvon Were Stand-Ins for Obama

Tom Johnson
October 13th, 2014 12:50 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: Religious Right Finds Diversity ‘Painful’

Tom Johnson
October 11th, 2014 7:28 PM
 

Daily Kos: ‘Lily-White…Paranoid’ NRA Has a ‘Gun Fetish’

Tom Johnson
October 10th, 2014 2:23 PM
 

Jonathan Chait: Limbaugh ‘Obsessed’ With Slavery

Tom Johnson
October 8th, 2014 9:46 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: Joni Ernst a ‘Dangerous…Militia Type’

Tom Johnson
October 8th, 2014 11:08 AM
 

Naomi Wolf: ISIS Beheading Videos May Have Been Staged

Tom Johnson
October 6th, 2014 12:44 PM
 

Salon: Keep ‘Reactionary’ Righties Away From History Classes

Tom Johnson
October 5th, 2014 8:26 PM
 

Daily Kos: GOP Anti-Medicaid ‘Virus’ Deadlier Than Ebola

Tom Johnson
October 4th, 2014 3:09 PM
 

Lefty Blogger: ‘Completely Insane’ GOP Spreads Ebola Hysteria

Tom Johnson
October 3rd, 2014 3:26 PM
 

Joni Ernst-Hating Blogger Wonders Why Democrats Can't Stop 'Morons'

Tom Johnson
October 1st, 2014 12:32 PM