Back When No One Online Could Cover NASA
#FlashbackFriday For online journalists, bloggers, etc. who think you are having a hard time covering @NASA This is what I had to go through back in 2000 just to get #NASA press credentials. House Science Committee Chair & the NASA OIG got involved. https://t.co/8oPpZUxESM pic.twitter.com/A0YbfujPUA
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 5, 2021
Keith’s note: From my 24 July 1999 NASA PAO media accreditation request:
“NASA Watch is read regularly (during regular working hours) from all NASA centers, the White House (they even asked me to post an OMB job opening on NASA Watch), other agencies, Congress, the aerospace industry, reporters for the “legitimate” press. It is also read by people from countries and locations around the world – including Antarctica. Readership is growing, not fading. I can only surmise that this is because NASA Watch offers something called “news” – even if it is often presented alongside clearly denoted editorial opinion. NASA Watch is only the beginning of what will follow. Others will soon be online (and not in print) who are much more adept at this art than I. They too will be asking for accreditation.”
I would imagine it would be extremely difficult to get press credentials today without a web site or social media presence.