In its infinite wisdom, Congress let the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) die a silent death after having had it on the front burners for the past couple of years. I hope our industry is not doing the same.

In our country’s founding beginnings, our imperfect founders wrote close to a perfect document. In that document was an unfettered freedom of the press, added as another check on power that is still needed today.

But that document said nothing about reporters, editors and pu...