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

Tom Johnson
August 6th, 2014 7:55 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 5th, 2014 6:10 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
August 3rd, 2014 10:38 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 31st, 2014 5:02 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 30th, 2014 4:18 PM
 

Daily Kos: Conservatives Fighting Obamacare Are Like Psychopathic Acti

Tom Johnson
July 29th, 2014 10:29 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 28th, 2014 6:29 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 27th, 2014 8:58 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 26th, 2014 7:45 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 25th, 2014 6:56 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 23rd, 2014 10:22 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 22nd, 2014 9:33 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 21st, 2014 9:54 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 20th, 2014 10:05 PM
 

Clinton White House Speechwriter: Conservatives Favor Judicial Activis

Tom Johnson
July 19th, 2014 6:08 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 18th, 2014 2:10 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 17th, 2014 10:23 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 17th, 2014 6:58 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 16th, 2014 7:15 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
July 15th, 2014 6:32 AM