Joseph Seigenthaler (born 1959), an American sculptor and video artist
Historian E. Thomas Wood says that "without question" Seigenthaler ran the newspaper as a liberal one.
In 2005, Johnson figured by happenstance in the Seigenthaler incident, a controversy over a hoax posted as a Wikipedia article about prominent Nashville resident John Seigenthaler, Sr. Seigenthaler told reporters that Johnson was the first person who alerted him about the article.
On September 23, 2005, colleague Eric Newton copied and pasted Seigenthaler's official biography into Wikipedia from the Freedom Forum web site.