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

Daily Kos Writer: Media ‘Skewing Their Agenda to Undermine’ Hillary

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New Republic Writer: Democrats Too Efficient to Have ‘Obama’s Katrina’

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Writer: Media Normalize ‘Vicious’ Trump; Have ‘Grudge’ Against Hillary

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Blogger Not Sure Trump Would Be a Worse President Than Dubya

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New York Mag: Vote For Hillary, Even If She Had Vince Foster Killed

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New Republic: ‘Liberal Media Bias’ a ‘Knee-Jerk’ Conservative ‘Cliché’

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Liberal Pundit: Right’s Idea of Liberalism a ‘Cartoonish Caricature’

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New Republic: ‘Smug Liberals’ Right About GOP’s Racist Messaging

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Ezra Klein: Media ‘Increasingly Biased' on Trump, and He Deserves It

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Vox Writer: Anti-Trump Conservatives Partly Responsible For Trump

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Columnist: GOP’s Anti-Obama Efforts Now ‘Look Weak and Foolish’

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Salon Writer: ‘Silly’ to Assume Hillary Would Lose to Another GOPer

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Liberal Pundit: GOP Now a ‘White Ethno-Nationalist Party’

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New Republic Writer: Trump’s Campaign Combines Racism and Romneyism

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Liberal Pundit: ‘For the Good of the Nation,’ the GOP ‘Has to Die’

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Blogger: Trump and Ryan Represent Different Types of Evil

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Daily Beast Pundit Ponders ‘The Impossibility of a Leftist Trump’

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Vox Writer: Conservatism Not ‘Viable’ Without Racist Voters

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Mother Jones: Hillary ‘One of America’s Most Honest Politicians'

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Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi Trashes ‘The Myth of the Liberal Media’

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