11.   It has, in fact, gotten twice as much air time as the next-most-covered story on the three evening network newscasts.

12.   It was all over the network newscasts.

13.   It was the lead on network newscasts.

14.   Last week, the impotence pill got more air time on the three network nightly newscasts than any other subject.

15.   Nixon ordered communications director Herbert Klein to count the number of times Kennedy was mentioned on the network newscasts, according to Matthews.

16.   Of course, MSNBC, CNN and the new Fox News Channel, which debuts this Monday, cannibalize the network newscasts.

17.   Serving as a backdrop to the network newscasts, a flock of flacks work on computer terminals.

18.   Sketchy foreign-policy reports on the network television newscasts are suddenly longer and far more substantive.

19.   That may be clearer to Rather than to neutral observers, most of whom see few major differences among the network newscasts.

20.   The decision to have Clinton go about his business also stemmed from White House fears that network newscasts last week could have persuaded Americans that war was imminent.