i used to think that the people on TV can hear you talking at home, so whenever my parents started talking about something else when the news was on i felt bad for the newsreaders, coz i thought that they knew they were being ignored.
So i would always pay really close attention to every news story and say 'mmm' knowledgeably at various intervals, right up until someone realised why i was doing it and put me straight, otherwise i would probably still be doing it now. :D
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- I believed Walter Cronkite knew everything, that's why they let him do the news.— Dixon
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- When I was younger - I used to believe my stomach rumbling was little people in there talking to me.Anon
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian