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I’VE been sitting here trying to calculate how many times I’ve seen Gary Condit run down the Capitol’s back stairs.

I tried multiplying the number of days since the story broke by three (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News), and then multiplying by three again for the number of times a day I watch the news. But wait. What about all the talk shows? Some have been using the stairway clip as a lead-in, repeating it after every commercial break, while others have been putting it in a miniature box in a comer of the screen where it plays over and over during updates, often in slow motion. How could I get an accurate count of that?

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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I’VE been sitting here trying to calculate how many times I’ve seen Gary Condit run down the Capitol’s back stairs.

I tried multiplying the number of days since the story broke by three (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News), and then multiplying by three again for the number of times a day I watch the news. But wait. What about all the talk shows? Some have been using the stairway clip as a lead-in, repeating it after every commercial break, while others have been putting it in a miniature box in a comer of the screen where it plays over and over during updates, often in slow motion. How could I get an accurate count of that?