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pajamahadeen

pajamahadeen noun: bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.

Noun

pajamahadeen pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.
    • And recent scholarship on media criticism points to the importance of the "'pajamahadeen' bloggers who targeted CBS, CNN, and the Associated Press during 2004 and 2005" in Internet campaigns that effectively challenged the mainstream media's claims of fairness and accuracy in reporting […]"2011, Ronald N. Jacobs, Eleanor Townsley, The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8
  2. (plural, plural-only) Bloggers collectively.
    • Stay home in your pajamas, oh fellow member of the pajamahadeen.2012, John Biggs, Charlie White, Bloggers Boot Camp: Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 188

Origin of pajamahadeen

Blend of pajamas + mujahadeen, from the notion that bloggers write at home in pajamas.

Questions about pajamahadeen

What does pajamahadeen mean?
Pajamahadeen means bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.
What part of speech is pajamahadeen?
Pajamahadeen is a noun.

Words near pajamahadeen in the dictionary

  1. pajama injunctions
  2. pajama parties
  3. pajama party
  4. pajamaed
  5. pajamafied
  6. pajamahadeen
  7. pajamaless
  8. pajamalike
  9. pajamas
  10. pajamers
  11. pajamies

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