- Much of my career has been spent developing a communication-based subject matter… media revolutions change most everything.
- My purpose now is mostly media and civic literacy education… exploring ideas about how politics, families, education, religion, journalism, foreign policy, individual behaviors, and more are changed.
- Lessons learned… insights based on 50 years of study and professional experience. Some of my conclusions are that information-clutter creates public confusion; debating issues results in polarization; people hear what they want; repeated lies eventually sound true.
- Media and Civic Literacy Education… citizens must learn how to edit the information they consume, seek a balance of opinions, and most especially identify extreme exaggerations and outright lies.
Larry D. Lauer 