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

Tom Johnson
May 23rd, 2006 1:05 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
May 20th, 2006 4:29 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
May 7th, 2006 5:01 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
March 24th, 2006 2:26 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
March 20th, 2006 2:10 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
March 10th, 2006 11:28 AM
 

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

Tom Johnson
February 22nd, 2006 12:20 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
February 15th, 2006 5:54 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
February 15th, 2006 12:06 AM
 

Washington Post Humor Columnist Defends Paper's Amputee Cartoon

Tom Johnson
February 7th, 2006 1:01 PM
 

MTM and FNC: Not Such an Odd Couple

Tom Johnson
February 4th, 2006 5:07 PM
 

How Much Is a 'Cronkite Moment' Worth

Tom Johnson
February 1st, 2006 3:46 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 23rd, 2006 3:37 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 19th, 2006 5:28 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 18th, 2006 12:24 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 10th, 2006 4:51 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 5th, 2006 4:24 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
January 5th, 2006 2:01 PM
 

Reliving the Republican Era on 'Monday Night Football

Tom Johnson
December 29th, 2005 3:39 PM
 

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

Tom Johnson
December 23rd, 2005 5:48 PM