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It seeks to set a tone, rather than swing for the fences and build a super-sized audience of yakkers.

Patricia Martin: Cowbird: A New Cultural Force on the Internet Patricia Martin 2012

It seeks to set a tone, rather than swing for the fences and build a super-sized audience of yakkers.

Patricia Martin: Cowbird: A New Cultural Force on the Internet Patricia Martin 2012

First, it's cheaper (and more ratings-productive) to hire bookers to Rolodex in vituperative guest yakkers than it is to hire reporters; Second it's cheaper (screw the ratings!) to have far fewer employees working on Saturdays.

Harry Shearer: The News Doesn't Sleep -- Except on Weekends Harry Shearer 2011

While salaries for sports yakkers — or media columnists — are perfectly legitimate if they help generate ad revenues, people actually need programmers, teachers and, say, cops.

ESPN's Van Pelt slams Bud Selig about his salary 2009

On the one hand, backbench members and talk radio yakkers have an incentive, at least given the demonstrated conservative market, to stake out the most extreme position, so that whatever the speaker does winds up being defined as weak-kneed mush given, again, the obvious fact that Boehner can't actually get this stuff enacted into law.

Will Tea Partyers buy the constitutional amendment con? Jonathan Bernstein 2011

First, it's cheaper (and more ratings-productive) to hire bookers to Rolodex in vituperative guest yakkers than it is to hire reporters; Second it's cheaper (screw the ratings!) to have far fewer employees working on Saturdays.

Harry Shearer: The News Doesn't Sleep -- Except on Weekends Harry Shearer 2011

I almost prefer yakkers to being pulled out by the sudden flashlight glow of an iPhone screen in the audience.

The tragedy will not be twittered 2009

FoxNews and its poorly educated yakkers just pull stuff out of their butts and declare it as fact.

Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes 2010

First, it's cheaper (and more ratings-productive) to hire bookers to Rolodex in vituperative guest yakkers than it is to hire reporters; Second it's cheaper (screw the ratings!) to have far fewer employees working on Saturdays.

Harry Shearer: The News Doesn't Sleep -- Except on Weekends Harry Shearer 2011

He is counting on them to respond in kind, bah, to what the cable yakkers say.

Barack Obama's address on Libya | Michael Tomasky 2011