What function did the media serve in 2016 in relation to the texas department of family and protective services' child protective services? multiple choice o as a gatekeeper, by ignoring stories of child endangerment and allowing the public agency to decline in effectiveness as a propagandist, by taking the position that the agency was "dead," and seeming to inflame public opinion against it as a primer, by failing to keep the agency's failures in the public eye and thus muting public opinion on the issue as an agenda setter, which changed public opinion and forced government action