Clooney Telethon Story: Blog Fodder

We told you yesterday morning exclusively about George Clooney’s Haiti telethon.

It’s almost laughable then how so many blogs simply lifted the story without credit. Chief among them was Sharon Waxman’s The Wrap. The blog loves to take stories that don’t belong to them.

This is a weird new form of non-journalism. After all, it was Clooney who told this reporter directly about the telethon at the “Up in the Air” dinner in New York. Waxman (and those who followed her lead) just ignored this.

Clooney, of course, I can also tell you (read this carefully Sharon) is getting all his “Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen” pals to join him starting with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. Expect Wyclef Jean, who’s doing amazing work down in Haiti right now, to return for the telethon with his band including cousin Jerry Duplessis who’s with him in Port au Prince trying to help survivors.

Wyclef once had a bit hit called “Somebody Call 911.” Indeed. Now it’s “Text 501501″ with the word YELE. It will save lives.