Native informers favor print media to conceal the accent that marks them

Evidence

In France they say ‘to speak like a book’. In Martinique they say ‘to speak like a white man’… He will lock himself in his room and read for hours—desperately working on his diction.” But still when the native informer goes for a radio or TV interview the nasty accents accompanies him as an uninvited guest; and for this reason he prefers the silent pages of books and newspapers (The Wall Street Journal is a favorite venue) to public appearances — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the medium-of-exile dilemma also explored in postcolonial writing about print authority.