Second news reporter struggles with words
Another news reporter has appeared on TV struggling with their syntax and appearing incoherent while live on air.
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Another news reporter has appeared on TV struggling with their syntax and appearing incoherent while live on air.
Mark McAllister of Canada’s Global Toronto was reporting on events in Libya when he started slurring his words.
The station issued a statement saying, “While on the air during the 6PM News Hour broadcast on Monday, March 21, Global Toronto reporter Mark McAllister suffered a minor medical issue causing him to experience a moment of disorientation. Paramedics were immediately called to the scene, where Mark was fully checked out and is feeling better. As a precaution, Mark will be pursuing this matter with his own doctor.”
It follows CBS reporter a similar incident with CBS reporter Serene Branson at the Grammy Awards. Later, she said she had suffered a complex migraine.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1dXL2EI0tk[/youtube]
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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This can also be caused by the presenter receiving a slightly delayed version of his own voice back in his IFB (Earphone)
Oh man, that happens to me every now and again too! It is terrible and bloody frightening. Your brain knows what it wants the mouth to say, but the words just do not come out right.
Any doctors in the house – what is it??
He still makes more sense than Andrew Bolt
i guess he had an out of body experience…probably newsreaders worst nightmare to be lost for words live on air
“…inability to form coherent words and sentences.”
In that case there are one or two commenters on this site who might benefit from a check-up!
Joking aside, there are a number of possible causes of this, ranging from temporary/benign to chronic and even fatal. He does need to get checked out to determine which it might be.
hard to watch 🙁 hope that guy is ok
i get them… and that’s how i get.. you just get super cloudy.. and words kinda dont come out..
What are the odds that this would happen so close to the Serene Branson incident, when there hasn’t been a notable incidence of this sort of thing occurring ever before, or at least in a long time.
That was really bad and obviously something is neurologically wrong. He needs to undertake a scan to check for brain tumours. One of the early symptoms of brain tumour is slurred speech and inability to form coherent words and sentences.
Poor fella. He was trying so hard to overcome this. It must be freaky having that happen to you.
@MuchoTB The network described it as a minor medical issue so we know he’s not having a “serious medical problem”. Personally I spent much of the late 90’s behaving exactly like this after lunch on weekdays. My solution was to stay at lunch longer.
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I think David’s article makes it very clear that this was taken seriously – and I think David is taking it seriously. I don’t see anyone (including David) making light of the situation.
Who said it was funny? I think it’s very clear from the video there is a medical issue.
This is not funny!! This is deadly serious!! They could be having a serious medical problem!!