Citations:pajamahadeen

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Noun: "bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment"[edit]

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  • 2004Andrew Sullivan, "Campaign '04: A Blogger's Creed", Time, 27 September 2004:
    Well, last week, the insurrectionary pajama people--dubbed "pajamahadeen" by some Web nuts--successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News.
  • 2005Brian C. Anderson, South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2005), →ISBN, pages xi-xii:
    (Klein's comment inspired Jim Geraghty of NRO's campaign blog the KerrySpot to dub the agents of the blogosphere the "pajamahadeen.")
  • 2007Frank Luntz, Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, Hyperion (2007), →ISBN, page 66:
    References to "pajamas" or the "pajamahadeen" signify right-wing bloggers, and a new group of centrist and conservative bloggers led by Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson named their new blog Pajamas Media.
  • 2008 — Arthur S. Hayes, Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America, Praeger (2008), →ISBN, page 35:
    It was a pivotal moment that would determine the credibility of the president, CBS, and the pajamahadeen.
  • 2011 — Ronald N. Jacobs & Eleanor Townsley, The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere, Oxford University Press (2011), →ISBN, page 8:
    And recent scholarship on media criticism points to the importance of the "'pajamahadeen' bloggers who targeted CBS, CNN, and the Asscociated Press during 2004 and 2005" in Internet campaigns that effectively challenged the mainstream media's claims of fairness and accuracy in reporting []

Noun: "bloggers collectively"[edit]

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  • 2012 — John Biggs & Charlie White, Bloggers Boot Camp: Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog, Focal Press (2012), →ISBN, page 188:
    Stay home in your pajamas, oh fellow member of the pajamahadeen.