but it only got 15 recs
the one you posted today got 224 recs
GOS is strange

and suggested that they responded readily to red flags. Time will tell. I am hoping for at least a warning.

I had 2 White Crested Black Polish hens in my first, Feminist flock (Lisbeth Salander and Ani Di Franco). You picked the PERFECT rooster breed - those Polish roosters always look like they're ranting!

Also, by looking at the second diary you linked here ("No -- I Will Not Yield -- This Race Isn't Over"), if I had to guess, I'd say that that's the one that may have been used as excuse to ban you. Of course, unless they tell you the actual reason, there is no way to know.

Either way, you did a masterful job in your "Manufacturing Consent by Elite Consensus" diary. The effect corporate media propaganda has on the citizenry has been of great interest to me for many years. So much so that I consider propaganda to be to most urgent problem we face as a society. I blame it for every single social dysfunction we face, from the vast majority of people voting against their own interests, to the implementation of legislation and policies that are detrimental to the general welfare and to the protection of the environment.

I'm working on formulating some theories and strategies on how to address this pressing (an urgent issue), but in the meantime I'll share these basic points:

1. Discredit: Trying to influence the behavior of corporate media is futile. Asking them for fairness is futile. The ruling elite behind the system of propaganda is ruthless. In my opinion what we need to do is continue to study how propaganda work, deconstruct exactly how it is being used by the corporate media and those in power; then, based on the findings, design counter-propaganda measures and deploy a nationwide campaign to discredit the corporate media with the intended purpose of reaching every single citizen. The campaign would have to be sustained/relentless, purposeful, and strategic.
2. Disengage: Exposing oneself to corporate media propaganda is toxic. It is tantamount to purposely subjecting oneself to the effects of a powerful, mind-numbing cognitive PsyOps weapon. I don't ever watch ANY corporate media news unless I'm doing research on propaganda. Also, I'm limiting my exposure to outfits like NYT, Washington Post, LA Times, and other corporate print news outlets. Instead, I watch Democracy Now! the Young Turks, and other independent, non-corporate, non-profit outlets. I also do a lot of reading of people like Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Henry Giroux, Juan Gonzalez, Chris Hedges, and many other independent writers, journalists, and intellectuals.
3. Be The Media: We need to nurture and develop our own media outlets, journalists, researchers. This goes along with the need to bypass corrupt institutions in favor of developing alternative social structures. It's also an offshoot of the concept of participatory democracy.

Bottom line, we cannot rely on any of the established institutions, be it legal, media, government, business, corporations, alone. All relevant institutions have bee captured, corrupted, or highly compromised as we've transitioned to becoming an oligarchy.

Anyways, I'll be expanding more on these issues the next time I post an essay.

Again, thank you very much for what you do. I hope to interact with you often!

P.S. A good example of nurturing out own outlets would be to donate (actual money) to outfits like this, caucus99percent. There are many other examples of course, but progressives need to find a way to fund each other's work; to shift our time, resources, and money away from the corporate state.

I especially like your third point. We all can be the media in our every day interactions with people. We have to let go of team ideas and pre-conceived notions about other human beings in order to get our message through. Even when we disagree up front, we should treat them with respect and try to find some commonality. It is the only way to get our message through.

Over the last few months I have read a few of your diaries and found them informative. This is a much better place for discussion. I am not banned over there but then I can shoot pool and have a beer with my republican neighbors too. At this point there is very little air between the required skill level it takes to deal with those two groups.

In the end it is really not a bad thing. I have noticed the past several years that group think arrived with a vengence. If a person did not agree with the opinion of the day they were using rwtp. As a rural dweller I have often disagreed and been told I didn't belong on the site that I should gtfo.

So the current policy is a natural progression. Now I go over for BNR. I log into rec and am gone. The attitude there is really circling the drain from the comments I read just in your two diaries. Who ignores content over a supposed slur that I absolutely heard nothing about until a month ago? It is beyond mindless.....

I look forward to interesting and thought provoking discussions on your future essays.

The place will become "The LL, BBB, Tuffie & Trix Feelgood Site".

Just had to go over and read your diary. It was excellent. I was confused as to why you would be banned from DK for it. I guess no one will be able to include Hillary's name in any diary that is not a clear and noisy Butt Kiss from here forward. I am somewhat pleased to say that I can still be shocked by some stupidity and DK has gone real stupid.

Nice job RR!

Their communities loss, this communities gain.

Ick! Been trying not to give 'em my clicks. Do you mind reposting the Manufactured Consent by Elite Consensus diary here, great post. Well written... and welcome to c99. I'm new here, too, it's a world better.

expressions of concern about you today in my Kosmail, so I came over to say hello. There's quite a string at the help desk, it will be interesting to see if the admins respond. I think you're right, it was your earlier, more ranting diary that they just got around to, admins not working weekends; not your diary today, which was excellent and I think within bounds (and for that matter, completely unflagged last I checked).