On the night of February 8, 1968, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a town located ninety minutes away from Charleston, state highway patrolmen were stationed at the edge of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution, hoping to gain control of a crowd of unarmed students protesting a nearby segregated bowling alley. Triggered by what they erroneously believed was gunfire aimed toward them, the patrolmen fired into the group, killing three young men and wounding twenty-eight others. Among those covering what became known as the Orangeburg massacre was the college’s student newspaper, the Collegian. Textual analysis and media framing theory guide this examination of how the campus newspaper staff used their coverage to honor their fallen peers. Collegian coverage also communicated the anger of a campus community that felt betrayed by state lawmakers and expressed frustrations over what many believed was a lack of accurate news coverage by the mainstream media.

1968年2月8日晚上，在南卡罗来纳州奥兰治堡的一个小镇，距查尔斯顿有90分钟路程，州公路巡逻队驻扎在南卡罗来纳州立学院的一所历史悠久的黑人机构的边缘，希望能控制人群手无寸铁的学生抗议附近一个隔离的保龄球馆。由于他们错误地认为是向他们开枪，所以巡逻人员向该团开火，杀死了三名年轻男子，炸伤了二十八人。该学院的学生报纸《Collegian》报道了被称为奥兰治堡大屠杀的新闻。文本分析和媒体框架理论指导了对校园报纸工作人员如何利用报道来表彰其堕落同龄人的方式的考察。大学 报道还传达了一个校园社区的愤怒，这种愤怒使州议员感到背叛，并对许多人认为主流媒体缺乏准确的新闻报道感到沮丧。