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

Salon Pundit: ‘Hillary-zilla,’ Friend of the Oligarchy, Dominates

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Columnist: 'Reform'-Minded Conservatives Will Rise After ‘Loony’ G

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Amanda Marcotte: Right-Wingers Are Promoting Revenge Against the Nerds

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Kevin Drum Seconds Mark Halperin: Hillary's ‘Just Never Going to Cat

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Salon: ‘Odious’ Laura Ingraham Won’t Run For Congress; She’s M

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Daily Kos: Conservatives Fighting Obamacare Are Like Psychopathic Acti

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Blogger Paul Waldman: You Can’t Send In the Republican Clowns, Since

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Lefty Blogger: Americans of Today Shouldn’t Be ‘Stunted With the S

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Daily Kos Contrasts Old-School GOP With New ‘Bats**t Crazy’ Versio

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Leftist Blog: GOP Effort to Undermine Obamacare Stems From a Leninist

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Paul Waldman: ‘Cruel and Uncaring’ Right-Wingers Rejoiced as Appea

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Daily Kos: For the GOP, Reagan Is Now Mostly a Cute Marketing Gimmick

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Lefty Blogger: 'Movement Conservative’ Can't Win In

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Salon’s Thomas Frank: Obama Blew His Chance to ‘Put the Right Out

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Clinton White House Speechwriter: Conservatives Favor Judicial Activis

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Leftist Blogger Lumps Tea Party With Pro-Russia Forces That Shot Down

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Lefty Blogger: IRS Scandal Exists ‘Only in the Fevered Imaginations

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To Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, ‘GOP’ Might As Well Stand For ‘Grou

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Mother Jones Writer Touts Study That Says Conservatism May Have Made S

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Atheist Writer: ‘Jesus Was a Marxist Before Marxism Had a Name

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