Why oh why oh why....

Which rising star of journalism is this describing?

"....but as (s/he) had extraordinary difficulty in finding new ideas, s/he made it (his/her) speciality to rail against the lowering of moral standards, the general weakening of character, the decline of patriotism and the anaemia that was sapping the national sense of honour. (S/he had discovered the word 'anaemia' and was very proud of it.)

Sounds familiar? Actually it is Maupassant describing Georges Duroy in Bel-Ami (1885); plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose....

Comments

[Serge]

Also sounds like some of the Latin authors we had to read in secondary school. And that was even a couple of years before 1885... :-)

[Gerry]

And I was about to ask you to narrow it down a bit, Philip!