Puzzle Description:

Whether spoken of or written in the news --See comment 1

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jul 21, 2019

The description is a clue to the subject using cryptic crossword clue rules.

Every cryptic clue is made up of two parts; a definition, and a literal description of the answer using wordplay. They can be in either order (though not intertwined) and there is no separation between them.

Here is a page describing some of the techniques:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/cryptic-crosswords/
or an easier-to-read PDF:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CrypticsGuide.pdf

much harder without the number of letters as a guide

Not very good at cryptic crosswords, but judging from the picture, looks like a raindrop in a speech bubble, so I'm guessing the answer is: Weather

Maybe it's just my attitude today, but it looks like somebody's getting flipped off.
You know, I can make a logical case for that: the speech bubble, containing the flip-off, which is in blue. And a classic meaning of "blue" is off-color.
So...?

This is "weather". I think I worked over the clue too many times and ended up leaving off a bit that should have been in there. It should have been more like "Whether spoken of or written as an item in the news".

The breakdown is this:
Whether spoken of (homonym)
or (link)
written as an item in the news (definition)

Even so it's a bit weak. <redface>

Flipping off the weather :)

It looks like a water drop inside a crystal ball, so I thought it was weather forecast.

weather report

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