Media and accumulation regimes: towards a critique of the constitutive link of press agencies with the financialization of the economy

In this text, I propose to leave asides the liberal bias in media studies which associates the media with democracy, and rather to analyze the media and their histories by linking them to the institutional forms of capitalism and the accumulation regimes. More specifically, I approach this critical ways of thinking by analyzing the constitutive relationship between news agencies and financial capitalism. The alliance between information and finance, far from helping citizens to make better choice, rather encourages the development of speculative bubbles and makes working conditions for journalists more precarious. Considering that the media are not victims of financialization, but rather key players in its operation, I stress that these organizations must first of all change themselves and de-constitute the market before calling for help and asking for reforms.