Earlier this evening, a video was posted to YouTube of Wyclef Jean addressing questions that have arisen regarding his charity, Yele Haiti, their financial history, and their ability to impact disaster relief efforts right now.

Obama's upcoming Newsweek editorial ("Why Haiti Matters") is online. Near the end: "In the aftermath of disaster, we are reminded that life can be unimaginably cruel....That "time and chance" happen to us all." He could've just ended it there. [Newsweek]

Wyclef Jean has become the face of the Haitian disaster. He's there now pulling bodies out of rubble. But more indications are emerging that his charity, Yele Haiti, is not the best place for your money to go right now.

Rush Limbaugh said various dumb and bigoted things about Haiti. People criticized him for this. Now—and who could've seen this coming?—he is digging in, and saying even more controversial things. Like somehow this is related to death panels?

There's no doubt Wyclef Jean — who has raised $1 million since the Haiti earthquake — wants to help his homeland. But a look at his personal foundation's finances raises questions about whether it's wisely managing the donations it's collecting.

Barack Obama will "write" a Newsweek cover story on Haiti. That is stupid.

Not that they shouldn't cover it! But that they should not use this tragedy to advance their particular ideological points. Tonight on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made this point in a humorous way. Also slammed: Pat Robertson.

Talking for an hour over pictures of unspeakable destruction has got to be a grueling task. Tonight, CNN's Campbell Brown was nearly overwhelmed by two hurt kids in Haiti.

• Is NBC close to resolving the mammoth mess it has on its hands? TMZ reports the network has reached a deal with Conan O'Brien (in which he'll leave NBC with some amount of money, and Leno, in turn, will take over The Tonight Show). Others, however, say the negotiations continue and NBC chief Jeff Zucker's been playing hardball with O'Brien. So who knows. Fortunately, Conan has lots of exciting options to consider when he finally walks out the door.
• Related: NBC announced its new, post-Leno primetime lineup today. [NYT]
• George Clooney will host a live telethon on Jan. 22 to benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. ABC, NBC, MTV, HBO and CNN will all broadcast it. [EW]
• Why isn't Fox News covering the tragedy in Haiti? Because rehashing faux controversies involving President Obama always comes first, duh. [MM]
• Avatar could top Titanic and become the top-grossing movie in history this weekend. In related news, it seems the Avatar backlash is in full swing.
• Robert Pattinson won't be Tobey Maguire's replacement in Spider-Man. [E!]
• American Idol creator Simon Fuller is starting up a new company. [LAT]
• Editor & Publisher is back in business under new ownership. [E&P]
• Is the ratings dry spell at MTV almost over? MTV execs hope so! [LAT]
• The cleanest and dirtiest cafeterias in the media industry. [DF]

The earthquake in Haiti has led to an outpouring of calls for help on Twitter and Facebook. But like previous humanitarian crises and calls for charitable giving, there are right ways and wrong ways to help.

To help Haiti, send money. Not supplies or medicine or anything else.

Google Earth has added a plugin to access updated satellite maps of a post-quake Haiti. On their blog, the Earth and Maps team invites users to help them aggregate location-based information for disaster relief. ReadWriteWeb does before and after screencaps.

Why Haiti is so vulnerable to earthquakes: The condensed version.

Click to viewRush Limbaugh: "We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax." What?? (And that is one of like ten other ways he attempted to tie the death of tens of thousands to Barack Obama, somehow.) [Related?]

The Red Cross is "out of medical supplies." The Daily Beast has identified the NGOs most deserving of your donations. (Watch out for frauds soliciting donations in the coming days.) And the White House emails:

The Way We Live Now: Putting things in perspective. It works like this: we think our lives are fucked because of the recession. Then we contemplate Haiti's circumstances. A few minutes later we're like, whatever, it still sucks here, too.

Galactically vile Christian cleric Pat Robertson told his CBN viewers today that Haitians are "cursed" because their ancestors "swore a pact with the devil" to liberate themselves from the French in 1804. "True story."

Yesterday there was little news available from Haiti, so optimism remained. But as more info about yesterday's earthquake comes out, it looks grim. The prime minister says hundreds of thousands may be dead. The government has almost ceased to function.

The Red Cross says three million may have been affected by the Haiti earthquake.

CNN is about where we all are when it comes to the earthquake in Haiti: Scouring social networks for eyewitness accounts. This live-streaming Canadian videoblogger just got called, on air, from a CNN producer looking for sources in Haiti.