Media‑engineered panic drives leadership spills

Real‑time news cycles and social platforms can manufacture a short‑lived but intense sense of crisis that provokes internal party challenges and rushed decisions. Politicians respond to the spectacle economics of media attention rather than to measured strategic calculation, producing leadership instability and policy short‑termism. — If media‑manufactured panic reliably prompts leadership challenges, it changes incentives for party governance, encouraging theatricality and defensive politics over steady administration.