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

Liberal American Prospect Editor: "Vultures of the Right" Waiting Unti

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James Risen: The Anti-Judith Miller

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Newsweek's Alter: "Bush Thought 9/11 Gave Him License to Act Like a Di

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Slate Editor: "It's Not Impossible to Imagine" That Bush Would Bomb Jo

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Mike Wallace Would Ask Bush Why He's Left America "So [Expletive] Up

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TV Columnist Wants CBS Boss Moonves in a "Che T-Shirt," Leading News

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Washington Post Blogger Claims Bush Shuns "Ordinary Citizens

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Washington Post Humorist Defends Standard Newspaper Abortion Terminolo

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Moyers: "We Were Biased, All Right -- In Favor of Uncovering the News

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Newsweek's Dickey: Is This a New Age of "Yellow Journalism

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Leftist Online Magazine Salon Turns Ten, Looks Back

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Pundit's Pal: Media Need Re-Educating So They'll Be Less...Conservativ

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Columnist: Future of Network News Is Olbermann's Countdown or Somethin

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U.S. News Editor Sees "Calamitous Second Act" for Bush

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Ephron Speculates About Bush "Fighting Depression...Being Medicated

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Knight Ridder Story Speculates That "Stain" on Bush's Presidency Will

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Bernstein Likens Plamegate to Watergate, Refers to 'Routine Smearing

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Olbermann Links White Sox, Plamegate

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Newsweek Columnist: At Least LBJ Was Heartbroken by Body Bags, Unlike

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Clinton Still Complaining the Media Are Shortchanging Him

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