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

Vanity Fair Writer Says 'Anti-Press Hysteria of the Nixon Years' May R

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WashPost Critic: Why Can't Politicians and Fringe-Left Artists All Jus

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Don't Go For Soda: Leftist Media Critic Says Bill's Pop Pact Beats Bus

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Hello, Newman: CNN's Havana Bureau Chief Jumps to Al-Jazeera Internati

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WashPost Book Critic: "The Communist Ideal Is a Noble One

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WaPo Humorist: "Easier to Be" Conservative Since "You [Don't] Have to

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60 Minutes' Pelley: Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming "Probably

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Ex-NYT Ombudsman: Media "Extremely Chastened" Since They "Allowed War

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WashPost Publications Go from 'Manslaughter' to 'Homicide' for Hunting

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Washington Post Humor Columnist Defends Paper's Amputee Cartoon

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MTM and FNC: Not Such an Odd Couple

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How Much Is a 'Cronkite Moment' Worth

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A Real Lemann of a Media-Bias Comment From Columbia Journalism Dean

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Alterman Update: Pats Self on Back Following Up on Tucker Carlson Deba

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Carlson: "You Can't Cover America Until You Have a Newsroom That...Thi

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Newsweek Writer Mocks Clarence Thomas's "Playbook on How to...Appeal t

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Newsweek's Dickey Likens "Show Trial" of Saddam to Saddam's Own Thugge

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For Washington Post Columnist, Vince Young Trumps George W. Bush

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Reliving the Republican Era on 'Monday Night Football

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From Left of the Aisle, Slate Critic Calls 'Munich' The Year's Best Fi

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