Meanings
- informalpluralplural onlyBloggers 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 - pluralplural onlyBloggers 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
Blend of pajamas + mujahadeen, from the notion that bloggers write at home in pajamas.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
pajamahadeen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pajamahadeen
“pajamahadeen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pajamahadeen. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pajamahadeen,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pajamahadeen.
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