A belief by someone that the cnn anchor is talking about an event pertaining to that individual in a personal way may reflect:

A belief by someone that the cnn anchor is talking about an event pertaining to that individual in a personal way may reflect ideas of reference. Ideas of reference and delusions of reference are interchangeable. Both of these ideas related to individual's that experience innocuous events or coincidences and internalizing them into great significance. Innocuous is defined as harmless, safe or non offensive.