How Dr Oz Got Fox News to Support Spending on the Homeless (video)

Framing is everything. I’ve written before about the power of framing in persuasion. At minute 1:40 in this segment on Fox News, Dr Oz shows how it’s done, whether intentionally or not: He briefly turns a conversation about healthcare spending into one on homelessness. Because the whole tone of the discussion to that point is … Read more

This is Why Dr. Oz is a Compelling Speaker (video)

Yesterday we saw Dr. Marc Siegel’s weak, meandering, and unclear communication skills. Here we can see Dr. Oz in the same situation: a medical professional with three news anchors. But with a very different outcome. Whatever you think about Oz’s opinions on medicine, the point is he is an excellent communicator. He is crisp, sharp, articulate, … Read more