Definitions

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  • noun Bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.
  • noun Bloggers collectively.

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • The notion that CNN could be intimidated by the howls of a thousand pajamahadeen, is more than faintly ludicrous.

    Weblogs 2007

  • Because I hold this view of Teddy White, because I believe he was so gifted at spotting and describing large turns in American public life, I began thinking about what White would make of the new back rooms in American politics: the offices and kitchen tables of those Andrew Sullivan described as the pajamahadeen, the bloggers, and the other technological developments that have challenged the journalism and the old ways of doing politics.

    E. J. Dionne Jr.: The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together Happily and Enhance Public Life 2008

  • This is my first pajamahadeen jihad, other than periodic splenic vents about apostrophe abuse.

    Foxes guard henhouse; blogs treated like MSM - BatesLine 2005

  • But, like parasites too stupid to realize they are killing off their hosts, the pajamahadeen don't get it every time they dig more dirt for our mass grave.

    Daimnation!: The Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2004 2005

  • Please reply to Editor at pajamahadeen[at]hotmail[dot]com with your interest of attending.

    AreYouLiberal.Com Ace of Spades HQ 2010

  • Please reply to Editor at pajamahadeen[at]hotmail[dot]com with your interest of attending.

    Ace of Spades HQ Genghis 2010

  • Please reply to Editor at pajamahadeen[at]hotmail[dot]com with your interest of attending.

    Ace of Spades HQ Genghis 2010

  • Guerrilla pajamahadeen Sharp Elbows brings us this:

    Chicagoist Karl Klockars 2010

  • If a further talking point tracer were needed, which it isn't, the febrile cry of socialism, the time-tattered boogeyman of the pajamahadeen since the Fabulous Fifties will point the way to Rupert Murdoch, Richard Mellon Scaife and the whole unsavory clique of multi billionaires.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

  • If a further talking point tracer were needed, which it isn't, the febrile cry of socialism, the time-tattered boogeyman of the pajamahadeen since the Fabulous Fifties will point the way to Rupert Murdoch, Richard Mellon Scaife and the whole unsavory clique of multi billionaires.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

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