Don't they see that, in Strauss's words, "historical objectivity" requires "calling a spade a spade"?
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In a squad — like, say, Brockhampton or Leonardo DiCaprio's volleyball squad, if we're calling a spade a spade — there's a bit of protection.
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Let's all start collectively calling a spade a spade: Hicks is dishonest and has probably told more than "white lies" for the Trump administration.
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I don't think it's either here or there on the humility factor—calling a spade a spade is just being able to identify something correctly.
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I think then it came up with a very specific ethos of adversarial journalism, what we were talking about earlier, about not just sitting on the fence, but calling a spade a spade.
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Europe's top court appears to be leaning towards calling a spade a spade by judging Uber's business a transportation company, rather than just an enabling tech platform as the company prefers to think of itself, ie.
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It even gets close to calling a spade a spade, and Taiwan a sovereign country: "Visits to a country by United States Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials are an indicator of the breadth and depth of ties between the United States and such country," one clause reads.
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AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics processor: R600 revealed, Tech Report, May 14, 2007Wilson, Derek. ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT: Calling a Spade a Spade: Multi-GPU Performance - Prey, AnandTech, May 14, 2007.
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Despite his best efforts, Kamal Kishore Bajpai is not able to give his daughter enough time. Denied a mother's love and a father's attention, Suhana has grown up to have a legendary temper and materialistic nature. But equally legendary is her kindness. Everyone who has seen her grow up – her family, her servants and her friends – know her to be an honest, upright person, never shying away from calling a spade a spade.
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"Calling a Spade a Spade: Use of the Word 'Torture'", KPCC June 26, 2009McQuaid, John."The semantics of torture" guardian.co.uk – Comment-is-free May 13, 2009. In an article which criticized NPR and other U.S. media for their use of euphemisms for torture, Glenn Greenwald discussed what he called the enabling "corruption of American journalism": > This active media complicity in concealing that our Government created a > systematic torture regime, by refusing ever to say so, is one of the > principal reasons it was allowed to happen for so long.
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She is a lively and dramatic performer of her work and reads regularly at venues throughout Australia. She was a lecturer in creative writing at Deakin University in Melbourne (1995-8) and while as a writer-in-residence at La Trobe University she edited an anthology written by a group of people with gambling problems, called Calling A Spade A Spade. She conducts workshops and short courses for writers of fiction, and she mentors new novelists. She has been a guest at all the major literary festivals in Australia, and appeared at the 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival.
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In 2009, Shariy won the Yousmi Web-Journalism Award for "Best Story (Non-Professional)".. In April 2016 Shariy was named laureate of the Russia-based International Literary-Media Oles Buzina Contest (Международный литературно-медийный конкурс имени Олеся Бузины). "OLES BUZINA AWARD: CONTAGIOUS COURAGE", April 22, 2016, Russian World Foundation. In November 2017, in a rating of the personalities by number of readers in the Ukrainian segments of Facebook and Twitter, Shariy got the 12th place with the aggregate audience of 511,000 people. In the same month he was number 3 of the top most popular Ukrainian political bloggers on Facebook according to the rating of Espreso TV. Journalist Vladimir Posner commented on Shariy's work, saying that Shariy was one of those who had the right to be called a journalist, because, unlike many others, Shariy is calling a spade a spade.
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