Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, has said he wants to revise a proposed shield law in the United States. Questions about whether such a law is needed and about the to exclude organizations like WikiLeaks, which post unedited material online.
In theory, European shields are among the most robust in the world; Europe may lack the First Amendment, the American constitutional guarantee to free speech, but protection for the reporter-source relationship is cited in the European Convention on Human Rights, and many European countries have written it into law. In practice, however, there are still plenty of gray areas, resulting in long and expensive legal battles.
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