Until CNN gave Trump endless free and unedited airtime in 2015-16, no media organization came even close to boosting this career criminal as much as NBC. And NBC has never stopped bending over for him, as the sickening recent "Meet the Press" episode showed..

Now Trump is making what amount to death threats against NBC and its parent company. Earlier, he denounced CNN with almost equal vituperation.

Lessons learned: none, from all appearances.

@dangillmor Same for the New York Times. He joked that they were "failing" and they responded by pandering to him even more.

@dangillmor Jeff Zucker was head of NBC when Trmp's Apprentice began
Jeff Zucker was head of CNN when it gave him copious airtime in 2015-2016

Hmmmm

@dangillmor If it would boost their ratings, network executives at both NBC and CNN would air the execution of their own "journalists" live.
@jobsboils @dangillmor The “lesson” learned is straight from the Milo Minderbinder School of Journalism…

@threadandstone @dangillmor

“Milo, this is Alvin Brown. I’ve finished dropping my bombs. What should I do now?”

“Strafe,” said Milo.

“Strafe?” Alvin Brown was shocked.

"We have no choice,” Milo informed him resignedly. “It’s in the contract.”

@dangillmor so maybe they should not have free air time. Just PBS.

@dangillmor I said long ago that Donald Trump has one main “philosophy”;

What Can You Do For Me Right Now?

Anyone who isn’t doing something for him RIGHT THIS MOMENT is useless to him, they’re garbage. Doesn’t matter if they bailed him out of jail last night. It only matters what they can do for him NOW. The people and organizations who deal with him keep finding this out over and over.
But they keep hoping the outcome will be different each time somehow.

@dangillmor No, to the contrary, they learned they can draw his fans and his haters into the same cage and crap on all of them. It’s the views that count, not the caliber of the “interview”. They have forsaken integrity long ago. It’s all WWE format. “Wow! He’s threatening them!” And they will beg him for another and another, until it costs them actual money.
@dangillmor the lesson learned is modern news media gives no damns about anything except ad revenue and keeping production costs down