Reporter Serene Branson has stroke reporting on Grammys

[Dpantherman]

A Los Angeles reporter suffered a possible stroke during a live broadcast following the Grammys Sunday night.

Serene Branson was outside the Staples Center for CBS 2 News in Los Angeles and was set to share the "highlights and backstage coverage" from the music awards show when things went wrong.

The journalist's speech slurred almost immediately and became incomprehensible.

She struggled to speak for nearly 10 seconds, clearly aware she is having problems, before the video cut away to pre-recorded Grammy coverage.

"Sending my best to Serene Branson that she's ok," wrote Kim Baldonado, an NBC 4 News reporter in Los Angeles, via Twitter. "It doesn't sound like it's anything to laugh about."

Despite a report from London's Daily Telegraph that she was hospitalized, Branson may have merely been checked by EMT personnel and sent home with a friend, according to Kristin Cruz, co-host of the Mark & Kristin Show on KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/14/2011-02-14_video_tv_reporter_speaks_gibberish_in_bizarre_live_report.html#ixzz1DxDstHpw

[Darth Biscuit]

Wow, that's horrible.

[Carolina Husker]

Whoa.

[boo7382]

my co worker showed me this this morning. so, did she really have a stroke? When your brain starts jumbling words like that, its a sign that something is definitely wrong

[Captroop]

Change the thread title. It's not certain that she had a stroke. That's just a rumor that's been been blasted through the Twitterverse.

The problem with Twitter and news via social media is it's like a bad game of telephone.

Daily Telegraph: "Not sure why this happened. She may have had a stoke."

"Reporter may have had a stroke."

"Reporter likely a stroke"

"Reporter had a stroke at the Grammy's"

Dpantherman: "Video of a reporter having a stroke live on air!!! OMFG!!! That's so sad!"

[Dpantherman]

"possible stroke" my bad.

btw, u mad?

[Captroop]

"possible stroke" my bad.

btw, u mad?

Yeah, as a Journalism major, bad reporting really pisses me off. Not mad at you, but rather the morons who take speculation, and run with it like it's the truth, and clog up Google news with their misinformed idiotic blog entries, quoting a source who quoted a source, who misinterpreted the Telegraph.

It's really frustrating.

[Dpantherman]

i was aware of the conflicting reports. happens every day, usually starts on twitter.

[Wither]

Dpantherman: "Video of a reporter having a stroke live on air!!! OMFG!!! That's so sad!"

:lol: I love DPM.

[Dpantherman]

:)

[rodeo]

to be fair, it was a very heavy bertation.

[Dpantherman]

TVSpyNews

KCBS: reporter Serene Branson "was NOT hospitalized" (following her shaky appearance outside the Grammys) http://mbist.ro/fzbn26

[Captroop]

TVSpyNews

Thank, god. I would have felt so bad if I had posted this and it later turned out she had a stroke:

She sounds like the talking stain.

[Dpantherman]

:lol: