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Release Date: September 9, 2005 This content is archived.
An article in the Baltimore Sun on celebrities and television personalities who have gone to New Orleans to lend their support after Hurricane Katrina quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, who says "disasters are loved by the media and they're loved by the celebrities because it's very safe and it makes them look like such good people." Go to article.