Muslim guests are deployed as native informants reinforcing a victim-or-escapee binary

Evidence

Compassion is defined as a Western emotion that can be taught to Eastern peoples. Like the Muslim women discussed earlier who renounce their culture, Winfrey’s guests function as native informants, reiterating the same narrow framing of Muslim women as either victims of or escapees from an oppressive religion and culture, the same narrow frame that is circulated and consumed ad nauseum. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 685

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces and explains ‘native informant’ as a media-studies term for in-group voices used to authenticate outsider framing.
• SEED: Anglizable: the ethics of the ‘native informant’ as a rhetorical device — from anthropology into 24-hour cable news.