Monday, June 29, 2009

Rabid City of St. Augustine Officials Reading Book By Consumer Group Hater ERIC DENZENHALL

Eric is co-founder, of one of the most aggressive groups of Industry advocates known as the pit bull of PR he'll destroy consumer groups to advance industry agenda, for a fee.

Eric Dezenhall co-founded the company that is now Dezenhall Resources, one of the nation’s leading crisis management firms, in 1987. His areas of focus include hard news media relations, crises, and marketplace defense. He manages clients in industries including food, consumer products, entertainment, law enforcement, health care, petroleum, and pharmaceuticals.

Eric has developed a model for how media-hyped attacks on businesses and public figures are “packaged” to include Villains, Victims and Vindicators that fit a pre-cast entertainment format. He frequently lectures in academic and business circles about modern-day witch hunts and the techniques employed to preempt and defuse disparaging media coverage. Eric Dezenhall regularly appears as a damage control expert in the international media, including network television and radio, NPR, CNN, Fox, CNBC, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Geraldo, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Washington Post. He is a contributing writer to Ethical Corporation magazine, and has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New Republic.

Eric Dezenhall is the author of Nail 'Em! Confronting High Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Businesses, a widely cited new text in business, media and academic circles. Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management is Wrong, will be released in 2007. He is also the author of five damage control novels, Money Wanders, Jackie Disaster, Shakedown Beach, Turnpike Flameout, and Spinning Dixie.

Eric also served on a televised panel discussion in the Senate Caucus Room with Judge Robert Bork and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb examining the role of spin control on the American legal system and culture.

Before forming Dezenhall Resources, Eric Dezenhall was an account executive at Porter Novelli, one of the nation’s largest communications firms (1984-1987). Prior to joining Porter Novelli, Eric served in the White House Office of Communications and Presidential Personnel (1982, 1983) during the Reagan Presidency. He was also on the staff of ICG, Inc., political consultants (1982).

Eric serves on the Board of Directors of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition. A student of the American presidency, Eric collects books and political memorabilia, including campaign songs employed by Martin Van Buren’s opponents in the 1836 presidential election.

Eric Dezenhall was born in Camden, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he studied political science and the news media.

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