09-19-2014, 10:19 PM
It's a two-edged sword. The destruction of the last houses near Kalapana Gardens a few years ago made the local and international news. The owner of the first house signed an exclusive contract, but never got a dime. The stories and pics weren't worth that much when you can get a lot of it from public sources such as HVO. Some photographers give their material away just to get the publicity and their name in print. Instead he got a lot of scorn and ridicule from all over the world for building a house on an active volcano...not from the stories themselves, but from the comments sections. Even the comments from Honolulu were brutal. So the people who suffer losses and whose names appear on news outlets should be prepared for very nasty criticism.
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