Motives aren’t nearly as important as the chilling effect of each surrender on dissent, critical thought, and the First Amendment. No act was so craven in its capitulation as the shocking, indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel from ABC. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” he said, before promising to review ABC’s broadcast license agreement if the network doesn’t change its ways. Nexstar, a media company owning 28 ABC-affiliated stations, is acquiring local media company, Tegna. In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90 percent of the U.S. broadcast media market.