barking head

barking head
n.
A pundit or commentator who speaks in a loud voice and whose comments tend to be abrasive, aggressive, and partisan.
Example Citation:
"Try finding a discussion of these issues on any news network. The barking heads who usurp the space of public affairs with high-volume jeers are not equal-opportunity offenders."
— Todd Gitlin, "How TV Killed Democracy on Nov. 7," The Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2001
Earliest Citation:
The sports anchor desk jockeys are still, by and large, a good-looking, well-coiffed bunch of guys. ... They're still LOUD, in the age-old tradition of assaulting your eardrums with headline-shrieking staccato sentences. ... But, in fact, there is something new going on here. ... The barking heads have been nurturing personal styles whose only shared quality is a kind of evangelical furor.
— Rosie DiManno, "The Boys of Yammer," The Toronto Star, April 16, 1988
Notes:
Today's phrase (spied by subscriber Laurie Mullikin) appears to have been coined by several people over the years. For example, it was self-coined (self-coin: "To coin an already existing word that you didn't know about.") by Laurie in 1997 and by Todd Gitlin in 1998. However, the actual first use goes back to 1988.
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