Today is Cameron Slater’s day in the High Court, desperately trying to claim he is a journalist and as such doesn’t have to hand over his hard disk to Matt Blomfield, the businessman who Slater mercilessly destroyed in 2012. Blomfield took Slater to Court for defamation after Slater delighted in publishing blogs detailing personal and private information about Blomfield from a computer that was stolen and had magically come into Slater’s possession.
Seeing as at the time Slater was hiring his skills out as a blogger for hire, who gave Slater the stolen computer and why is important to a decision on the defamation proceedings. If the motives were malicious it would help Blomfield’s case.
Recently, Cameron has claimed he is a journalist so he can argue that he should have the protections afforded to journalists. As a blogger, I think such journalist legal protections should only ever be extended when the quality of work deserves it. Was Cameron challenging power with a series of hard hitting exposes? No he wasn’t, he was reprinting personal emails and information that were highly offensive and in my opinion defamatory from a stolen computer. Blomfield wasn’t a politician or person in power, he was just some bloke who pissed someone off enough to steal his computer and hand it to a venomous persona like Slater.
If a blogger believes the journalistic quality of what they have done deserves protection, they should be allowed to argue that in Court, but Slater has no public interest element in what he did to Blomfield.
It will be a fascinating case.
Excuse my ignorance if it shows itself here…but how come he wasn’t charged with being in possession of stolen property?
That won’t happen – he is pals with John Key.
@ SUEH . Good question . Could it be that Slater rubs shoulders with The Jonky ?
If The Jonky is the flower of the parasitic fungi that is neo liberalism then can you imagine how deep and dark his roots go ?
The courtroom will need a good fumigating after Slater leaves
The rights favourite wood louse deserves a good fumigating too.
I feel sorry for the rest of the wood lice – can we substitute the pic with one of a cockroach please?
National want him, so Collins will make sure he wins – somehow.
Opinion.
Key talked about his “top drawer” where information goes until it’s time to use it in ‘the media’.
Slater needs to prove himself as the ‘media’ in order to be an outlet for Key’s GCSB-trolled information.
I’m sure the judiciary are above interference, the same as police, and the Reserve Bank Governor, and the real media. Aren’t they?
Sorry Bomber, it looks like Slater’s going to be approved to be able to print his bilious vile. For another 99 days at least. It’ll probably be a delayed judgement – 21st September might be a ‘right’ compromise?
Is Cameron Slater the recipient of a sickness benefit?
Dunno if he is/was, but I remember when his insurance company threw him over after querying how it was that spending upwards of 12 hours a day blogging, researching, interviewing, and doing boxing training (or boasting about it, at least) was consistent with his claims of being mentally unable to work.
In Egypt if a journalist tells the truth he can get 7 years jail. Wonder what they would give Slater for telling the kind of b…s that he does here everyday. Why don’t we ship him there and find out?
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