Clooney, Wyclef, Cooper to Host Hope for Haiti

This Friday at 8 p.m., actor George Clooney will host "Hope for Haiti," MTV's two-hour telethon dedicated to raising money for relief organizations working in Haiti, the recent victim of disastrous earthquakes last Tuesday. Clooney will be joined by Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born rapper who recently withstood allegations that he was profiting from his foundation, the Yele Haiti Foundation, committed to aiding victims of the devastation in the struggling nation.
Accompanying the two live from Haiti will be CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, the first major news anchor on the ground after the disaster. Reporting since the morning following the quake, Cooper has been speaking out about the needless death the impoverished country is experiencing.
Running commercial-free, "Hope for Haiti" will air on numerous networks, from ABC to HBO to CMT. In the wake of the Internet-dominated era in which Wyclef's urgent Twitter feed spurred supporters to raise almost $2 million by text donation, MTV Networks' telethon may serve as a reminder that the influence of the telethon (and television) has not shorted out.