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Old Aug 5, 2016 | 11:01 pm
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davie355
 
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Angry Absurd NYT column: 'Flying With Shrieking Children? Give Your Neighbors a Goody Bag'

Parents traveling with small children can bring small gifts for their fellow passengers, as a pre-emptive move to fend off criticism from people like me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/up...goody-bag.html

This is an unusually amateurish piece for the New York Times - some hack throwing around "signaling" and "social capital" as a teenager would to sound smart. Then he writes, in reference to the idea of child-free zones:
It surprises me that airlines have missed such an obvious profit-making opportunity.
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