Grant talks about FOIA (“pronounced FOY-uh”), a bit of journalists’ jargon. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “FOIA”
A couple new words for you.
Martha, you know that I recently started working with this great bunch of young journalists here in San Diego.
Yes, Voice of San Diego.
So I’m getting refreshed on all this great journalism jargon.
Do you know what a FOIA is?
A FOIA?
How do you spell that?
F-O-I-A.
That’s going to give it away.
Oh, a Freedom of Information Act.
Yeah, it’s a Freedom of Information Act request, which is you fill out the paperwork to submit it to a government agency and say, I want this data or these records, and it’s all handled according to the law and official, and they have a certain amount of time to respond.
But it’s a FOIA.
Right, right.
Interesting.
I thought you were pretentiously talking about the lobby there.
I dropped my FOIA in the FOIA.
Yeah.
What’s your new word?
Something to share with us?
Something you’ve invented or something you found?
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