For my purposes they ARE out of business.
The article indicates nothing of the sort of NBC “making nice” with Trump.
Evidence is lacking.
Any proof there was any tension between them, not just “reality TV drama?”
Of course ratings $$$$ has a lot to do with this but there is this to consider too:
Rush Limbaugh - EIB [Jan 12, 2016]
...The next Politico story. “Trump’s ‘Strange New Respect’ Moment - You saw it here first,” says The Politico. “The media is coming around to the mogul. Having survived public thrashings from his political foes and the press for his policy proposals, his increasingly outrageous speeches, and his personality, Donald Trump now finds himself receiving strange new respect from unexpected corners.
“If you’re not familiar with the ‘strange new respect’ trope, a short primer. The American Spectator’s Tom Bethell introduced the concept in a 1992 article to ridicule the practice of liberal journalists who would reward conservative politicians who migrated from right to left by commenting in print on how they were now commanding ‘strange new respect.’”
Another way of putting it was, this politician is showing growth. Why, he’s actually growing. That meant becoming liberal. Transferring from conservative to liberal. So what they’re now saying is that Trump is a recipient of strange new respect just like McCain had it. All of a sudden the media’s coming around now. They have a strange new respect for Trump. They’re trying to say it signals the end of the guy. Just like when they said McCain had it, you know, McCain did, McCain fell for it, he thought the media was his base. He thought the media would never abandon him.
There are those of us that tried to tell him, Senator McCain, the minute you have a Democrat opponent, this love affair is over and the media is gonna be all over you and hate you. (imitating McCain) “It’s not gonna happen, it’s not gonna happen, because I spent years and years building these relationships, isn’t gonna happen.” And it happened. So they’re trying to run the same shtick here on Trump. But they’re still amazed that all of a sudden the media is now treating Trump with newfound respect.
translation: Oh, crap, he’s gonna win, and we’ll be frozen out of all the White House press conferences.
He’s going to be getting some help from MSNBC now. They want the deal maker.
Of course they are. Reality shows make money and they want in on the next one once he’s done with his months-long commercial disguised as a campaign.
They only attacked him half as much as they originally planned?
He saw what happened to that Ramos dude for being a jerk, and he would not like to have Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, having to report on the street in front of the White House when Trump excludes her for her network’s behavior.
Smart way to run a business.