Interesting article:
“There’s a lot of moral compromise involved with making money off of
surfing…period.” Samuels told me over the phone in February of 2010.
“And I’m not immune from that either. There are definitely times where I
wonder. I have my little code I live by in terms of writing about
surfing and surf spots and what I will and won’t write, but at the same
time there is something kind of opportunistic; it’s kind of a vulture
thing. It’s like the spirit of Miki Dora in one way, whatever keeps us
surfing or allows us to surf more that’s justifiable. A lot of people
looked at his life and felt bad for the guy. The things he did to keep
surfing weren’t necessarily things that a normal person would be proud
of.”
http://www.theinertia.com/business-media/surf-media-living-the-dream/