Related Clues:

• Talk like a toper
• Bit of defamation
• Media lawyer's concern
• Media lawyer's subject
• Put down in print
• Speak after one too many
• Character assassination
• Arc on a score
• Run down
• Mudslinger's utterance
• Depreciate
• Mudslinger's specialty
• Slander's well-read cousin?
• Put down in writing?
• Disparaging remark