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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 5:35 pm
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There's an article in today's New York Times about parents groups that are trying to make airlines stop showing non-kid-friendly films. It has a couple of quotes from Continental.

I wrote an email to the parents' group. I said "if you're worried about what your kids see, fly Southwest, Northwest, AirTran, Delta Connection, or other similar airlines. They don't have inflight entertainment."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/us...us&oref=slogin

One edit that made me very angry was in The Hours on United Airlines. The Hours features three scenes (from each of the three time periods) where two women kiss, none in a sexually explicit way. All three were edited out. This was blatant homophobia because similar kisses between a man and woman would not have been removed.
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