A political meme is a purposefully designed visual framing of a position. Memes are a new brand and fashion of political messages, campaigns, and advertising. It is a new way of communication ... a joke or humor understood only by a particular group of people. They are inside jokes or private jokes and has the ability to trigger an emotional reaction.
Memes work politically if they go viral when shared on any social media platform ... and if they help foster and nurture affinity, attachment, and a sense of belonging to a political party, circle or “in-group” and if they make a strong and riveting statement about a public figure or political issue.
Memes can spread rapidly online and into popular culture due to their shareability — they are easily created, consumed, altered, and disseminated. They can quickly communicate the creator’s stance on the subject. The stronger the emotional response provoked by a post, the greater the intent to spread it.
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On the other hand, editorials are magazine or newspaper articles that cater to the publisher or the editor's opinions and points of view. It is usually accompanied by political caricatures or cartoons that are related to what the editor says.
Like political memes, it is meant to influence public opinion and encourage and stimulate analytical and judicious critical thinking that sometimes makes its readers take action on an issue. At its core, an editorial is an opinionated news story delivered in professionally.
It usually addresses and covers the most pressing issues of the day, viral political developments, and attempts to devise and hatch new perspectives and viewpoints based on non-partisan and unbiased scrutiny of facts on hand vis a vis some other contradicting opinions.
An editorial is predominantly about balance just like Fox News adopting a motto "Fair and Balanced" network. But on some cases, editorials were meant to stir things up, when such is the need.
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