If you can't beat them - ban them, seems to be the motto under which CNN's Brian Stelter continues to carry out his brand of journalism, this time taking aim at anti-Biden memes.
Ever since the 2016 US presidential campaign, memes and meme-makers just can't catch a break from the mainstream media - at one point in time, these fun and funny, but also often acutely observant pieces of "internet art" were accused of helping elect a president these outlets didn't want, and at another, memes are blamed as unfairly criticizing the one they like.
Now Stelter - who has a track record of speaking in favor of censoring not only internet culture but paradoxically, journalism itself - is declaring yet another "war on memes," this time, those targeting Biden.
Stelter wants to make "combating meme makers" a thing, by slipping the phrase in his musings about the differences between, basically, dealing with online "misinformation" and that found in traditional media outlets like broadcasters and newspapers.
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