I honestly don’t know the details of Yele Haiti’s recent response to being exposed as a ripoff filling Wyclef’s pockets but it looks like TheStreet.com doesn’t either. Platitudes about governance seem to be all that’s needed to grease the wheels of entertainment “journalism”.
Whatever. Nobody wants their aspirational figures exposed and my disappointment at the fact that the business press doesn’t take hip hop related activities seriously enough to actually apply journalistic techniques to covering them seems to be mine alone.
I hope they have cleaned up their act and are no longer a slush fund cushioning Wyclef’s slow slide into musical irrelevance because Haitians were living in hell before this earthquake and I don’t expect much change in that condition.
I know I’m supposed to look at the still shot of the woman and child and feel good about Wyclef but, given his history, it just makes me sad.
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
Please Don’t Text $5 to YELE, TSG Reveals They Are Financially Incompetent and [Possibly] Self-Serving [Update: TSG Has More, Wyclef Responds]
More Bad News: Gawker Obtains Internal Documents from Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation
Russell Simmons Obfuscates the Yele Haiti Issue While Gawker Has a Better Idea
