What is your earliest memory of watching the news on t.v.?

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183. The overthrow of the Marcos regime in the Philippines in the mid-1980s

At least I think it was about the downfall of the Marcos regime -I can't really be sure since I was only 4 or 5 at the time but I seem to remember that it involved President Marcos and that it must have coincided with the time that his regime was overthrown. Of course I only remember it in the context of me wanting to talk and my mother asking me to be quiet because she wanted to listen.

Our family lived in SE Asia at the time -my dad was an expatriate working over there -and all the TV networks in the country in which we resided were controlled by the government. That often meant that the news programs were rather boring when it came to domestic news because everything reflected the government's priorities and the government line. My grandfather was a news addict to the extent that almost every hour, he would go into his study and listen to the BBC news on the radio so I'm sure I got some exposure to the news from hanging arouind him a lot but I don't remember much of it

If you're asking about the first time when I can remember paying serious attention to the news, it was when Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I'd heard about Mandela from various sources during my younger years and had already had in my mind that he was a great hero who was being imprisoned unfairly so his release was a big thing and I remember watching the coverage of his release. I also remember watching the news on the night Germany was reunited as one country -I seem to remember thinking it was amazing even then. That period of time also coincided with the resignation of our country of residence's founding father and Prime Minister, who was retiring after thirty-one years in office and I paid vague attention to that as well. Then events starting unfolding rapidly -Margaret Thatcher's resignation, the Persian Gulf War, collapse of the Soviet Union and so on and I became an evening news addict