pajamahadeen
English
editEtymology
editBlend of pajamas + mujahadeen, from the notion that bloggers write at home in pajamas.
Noun
editpajamahadeen pl (plural only)
- (informal) Bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.
- 2011, Ronald N. Jacobs, Eleanor Townsley, The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8:
- 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 […]"
- Bloggers collectively.
Quotations
edit- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pajamahadeen.