given the magnitude of the damage in port au prince, the only simple thing about helping folk is the horse race to get something anything there.
you can get an idea here:
Haiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, Thousands Feared Dead
coherent accounts in a difficult situation for coherence of the what's going on won't fit terribly well in the tiny-attention-span format of the 24/7 infotainment outlets.
personally, i'd just stop confusing television with an information source and think of it more as an advertising medium. sometimes there are advertisements for commodities and other times there are advertisements for political arrangements dressed up as news. when it annoys me, and it inevitably does, i turn it off.