“…One editor at a conservative publication that has published Johnson would only speak about him anonymously, partly for fear of antagonizing a writer who had already caused him much grief, he said. Like some of his peers, this editor lamented Johnson’s toxic influence on conservative media. “How sick is this system that a person who does everything in the exact wrong way could get this [Washington] Post story written about him?” the editor asked, referring to a recent article that some industry figures, including one of the Post reporters whom Johnson targeted, criticized as too soft.

“It’s more than he’s just bad,” the editor said. “There’s a sense of cosmic injustice that someone like him could exist and make money off this.”politico.com