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

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

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Charles Pierce: Taxpayer-Funded News Is Worth Every Penny

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Lefty Blogger: Annoy a Republican -- Make Voting Mandatory

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Jonathan Chait: 'Paul Ryan Is a Nut’

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Lefty Blogger: Religious Right Finds Diversity ‘Painful’

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Jonathan Chait: Limbaugh ‘Obsessed’ With Slavery

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Naomi Wolf: ISIS Beheading Videos May Have Been Staged

Tom Johnson

Salon: Keep ‘Reactionary’ Righties Away From History Classes

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson

Lefty Blogger: ‘Completely Insane’ GOP Spreads Ebola Hysteria

Tom Johnson

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

Tom Johnson