To harshly criticize, to use the press to condemn a rival business.
Origin
From Thomas W. Lawson --ize, co-founder of the controversial Amalgamated Copper Mining Company and later author of Frenzied Finance, which told the story of the amalgamation in an aggressively one-sided manner.
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