Media helps to set the policy agenda and if media focuses on a certain agenda or issue and keeps paying attention in it then surely the government will focus on it because it also catching the people's eyeballs.
If any agenda or issue get an appropriate amount of media coverage then common people believe it that this will have more significance than any other issue even if it does not have then they would neglect those agendas which are more important.
The term "enlightened monarch" is a type of "absolute monarch". A "constitutional monarch" has many legal checks on their power. An "enlightened monarch" still has all of the power, but they voluntarily choose to use it in accordance with enlightened principals. they support the arts and education and social agenda.
There were countless events big and small that led to the beginning of organized government, but they all came from a need to delegate tasks to certain people.
