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The promotional material for one of his fictional books, ''Jackie Disaster'', states that "as an investigative writer, Eric won acclaim when he uncovered the diaries of the late mobster, Meyer Lansky, which were featured in an article he wrote for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the ''Baltimore Sun''. A documentary he co-produced on organized crime air on the Discovery Channel in Fall 2001".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20041010025502/http://moneywanders.com/2eric.htm "About Eric Dezenhall"], ''Money Wanders'' website, archived page from October 2004.</ref>

In an interview with the ''Washington Times'' Dezenhall explained that the first challenge of a crisis manager is to set realistic goals. "You have to look at the origins of the term 'damage control," he said. "In the Navy, when your ship got hit by a torpedo, your objective was to live, not to get the ship back to where it was pre-torpedo. That's the great myth of crisis management." <ref name="Galupo">Scott Galupo, [http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20050324-092629-5304r.htm"Reputation repairmen"], ''Washington Times'', March 25, 2005.</ref>

"The American public is far more offended by inconsistency than by naughty behavior," he said.[http:<ref name="Galupo"//washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20050324-092629-5304r.htm]>

The success of environmental groups with campaigns that bypass government and directly lobby corporations instead bemuses Dezenhall."The desire of corporations to be accepted by the marketplace and to be personally liked has spawned an entire industry of activism and corporate capitulation that I've never seen before - it's unprecedented ... I've seen situations where companies are simply being harassed so badly that it pays to get out of a certain endeavor just to make the harassment stop," he said. <ref>Joan Lowy, [http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GREENCOMPANIES-05-25-05&cat=AN"Environmentalists bypass Washington to pressure corporations"], ''Scripps Howard News Service'', May 25, 2005.</ref>

In July 2006, Dezenhall "spoke to employees from [[Elsevier]], [[Wiley]] and the [[American Chemical Society]] at a meeting arranged last July [2006] by the [[Association of American Publishers]]," reported Jim Giles. The publishers were seeking to counter perceived economic threats from open-access journals and public databases. In an email leaked to ''Nature'', Dezenhall suggested that the publishers "focus on simple messages, such as 'Public access equals government censorship.' He hinted that the publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, and 'paint a picture of what the world would look like without peer-reviewed articles.'" <ref>Jim Giles, [http://www.naturespinwatch.comorg.uk/naturelatest-news-mainmenu-10/journal267-freedom-of-information/v445/n7126/full3958-prs-pit-bull-takes-on-open-access "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access: Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement"], ''Nature'', 24 January 2007.</445347a.html] ref> These strategies appear to have been adopted by the AAP [[front group]], the [[Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine]].

* Jim Giles, [http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/latest-news-mainmenu-10/267-freedom-of-information/3958-prs-pit-bull-takes-on-open-access "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access: Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement"], ''Nature'', 24 January 2007. (Sub Req'd).