This article applies Victor Turner’s schema of ‘social drama’ to examine narrative rituals and the roles performed by a local and national newspaper in their coverage of the Umpqua Community College shooting that took place in October 2015. Textual analysis is used to compare stories from The Roseburg News-Review and the New York Times in terms of the narrative’s movement from breach, crisis, redress and finally to either reintegration or separation. This study finds that narrative patterns for the local and national newspapers do not parallel, suggesting differences in role perceptions. Instead, journalistic ritual is subject to the crisis, proximity to the tragedy and audience. The local outlet reinforces consensus with authority by focusing on victims and the grieving process to achieve the social good of healing and recovery; and the national newspaper challenges the status quo by focusing on the shooter and legislative reform. While the News-Review reaches reintegration by achieving a sense of normalcy, the New York Times stalls in a state of liminality. Both papers move the discourse on school shootings toward a societal ideal though neither narrative reaches the transformative discourse that has invoked national reflexivity noted in past instances of tragedy.

本文采用维克多·特纳（Victor Turner）的“社交戏剧”模式来研究叙事仪式以及当地和国家报纸在其2015年10月对Umpqua社区学院枪击事件的报道中所扮演的角色。罗斯伯格新闻评论和《纽约时报》从叙述的角度出发，从突破，危机，补救到最后重新融入或分离。这项研究发现，地方和国家报纸的叙事模式不是平行的，这表明角色观念上的差异。取而代之的是，新闻仪式受到危机的影响，与悲剧和听众接近。当地机构通过关注受害者和悲伤过程来增强与权威的共识，以实现康复和康复的社会利益；全国报纸通过关注射击者和立法改革来挑战现状。当新闻评论通过达到常态感而重新融入社会时，《纽约时报》陷入了一种禁闭状态。这两篇论文都将关于学校枪击事件的论述朝着社会理想的方向发展，尽管两种叙述都没有达到援引过去悲剧中提到的民族反思性的变革性论述。