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

 

Kevin Drum: Speaker Gingrich Is Long Gone, But Fox News Still Spreads

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David Frum: GOP Needs a Tony Blair-Like Figure Who’ll Reform Party

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Charles Pierce: Cantor ‘Latest Victim’ of ‘Disease…Eating Away

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Salon: Experts Like Piketty and Tyson Prove That Science Has a Liberal

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Lefty Blogger: GOP-Backed Voting Laws Could Lead to ‘Fascism’ a la

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Kevin Drum: Hard to Blame Obama for Tuning Out the Constant Anger ‘G

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New Republic Writer: Knee-Jerk Bergdahl-Bashing Has Left 'Bloodthirsty

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Salon: Attkisson's Not Much, But She's the Best Thing About Heritage's

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Kos: Critics of Bergdahl Swap Are 'A**holes' and 'Chickenhawks

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Kevin Drum: No Need For Either a White House Press Secretary or a Dail

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E.J. Dionne: 'Reform Conservatism Is Better Than the Conservatism We H

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Rick Perlstein: Today's Right-Wing Journalists Are 'Hustlers, Haters

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Josh Marshall: 'Crazy Guy' Ben Carson May Belong on List of Bigoted Ri

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Salon's Joan Walsh: In the Obama Era, the 'Toxic Smog' of Tea Party Ra

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Paul Waldman: Right-Wingers Would Rather Whine Than Win

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Charles Pierce: The Tea Party, Minus Its 'Raving Loon' Nominees, Is No

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Washington Monthly Blogger: So-Called Constitutional Conservatives 'Ar

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Jonathan Alter: It's Simple 'Reality' That Obama's 'Willing to Comprom

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Liberal Blogger: If Ben Carson Runs for President, He'll Play the Role

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Pols Worth Hating: Scott Walker Is 'Really Sinister,' While 'Blitherin

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