It is a stale and useless topic, he insists.
Stahl went on to report that McFaul insisted that this Facebook poll was eventually deleted because "it's standard practice in the office to delete Facebook polls once the news topics go stale".
Still, Google search results for local topics tend to be stale.
And, vitally, the topic provides an alternative to Iraq, which may well be stale by the next election.More than anything, however, Lib Dem morale is being sustained by the real possibility that the next election will result in a hung parliament.
Yet while the show -- which features the estimable Shirley Knight, Diane Venora and Catherine Kellner -- bristles with tantalizing topics, it never shapes them into a seductive dramatic structure, working instead in abrupt and often stale emotional sound bites (1 30).
Evergreen is journalist lingo for a topic that, like its namesake, is always in season (or, at least, one that won't go stale immediately).
They already seemed stale.
