Someone who writes or utters panegyrics. An encomiast.
"Panegyrists, Errant Knights!
That whitewash one as grim'd as Nero,
and make him shine abroad--an hero."
William H. Ireland, Scribbleomania; or the printer's devil's polichronicon, a poem (1815).
And what do we call the opposite? That is, journalists who begrime and vilify a political figure, particularly abroad? As The Economist does with Berlusconi? I am no fan of Silvio, but The Economist has disappointed me in its reporting on Italy.
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