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Pajamas Media is a right-wing blog aggregator co-founded in 2004 by two Los Angeles bloggers, Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon. After briefly changing its name to Open Source Media (OSM™), it reverted to its original name on November 21, 2005[1]According to Simon the purpose of Pajamas Media is "to give bloggers access to more advertising revenue" and "to develop a Blog News Network that will do what many bloggers fear Google will no longer do; aggregate blog posts on various topics and present them for bloggers and blog readers to peruse and search through."[2]

History

Johnson and Simon were encouraged by their experience of "two events that marked the growing influence of blogs on society: a blog-driven investigation into the United Nations Oil for Food scandal and another into the falsified military records cited by CBS News in coverage of President George W. Bush." [2] "[A]lready friends via their blogs, Little Green Footballs and Roger L. Simon ... as they talked to other participants in the ever-expanding blogosphere, an idea began to take shape." This eventually took the form of Pajamas Media.

Its editorial board members and contributors include 'Instapundit' Glenn Reynolds; CNBC's Larry Kudlow; Michael Barone, blogger and senior writer, U.S. News & World Report; David Corn, blogger, columnist and Washington, D.C. editor for The Nation; and Claudia Rosett, the journalist who played a key role on breaking the UN 'Oil for Food' controversy.[3]

Conflicts of interest?

On October 29, 2005, two members of Pajamas Media's Editorial Board, Michael Barone and David Corn, appeared together on Fox News as journalists providing opposite viewpoints without identifying their shared business relationship in Pajamas Media.

Bloggers

Current list of bloggers who have signed up with Pajamas Media OSM.

Beginning in September 2005, Pajamas Media provided profiles of the bloggers who had signed up for its services. Among the profiles are:

Pajamas Media Editorial Advisory Board

As of November 23, 2005, the following names are listed as members of the advisory board:

Affiliations

Pajamas Media is listed as one of the four 'favorite' media sources by the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies along with Steve Emerson's Counterterrorism Blog, William Kristol's Weekly Standard and National Review Online.

Contact details

Pajamas Media Los Angeles headquarters
100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 275
El Segundo, CA 90245
Telephone: 877 676-2564
URL: http://pajamasmedia.com/

Resources

Profiles

External articles


Notes

  1. Name Change, OSM.org, November 21, 2005.
  2. [1], Tech Central Station, May 2005
  3. Press Release, PR Newswire, 17 October 2005