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How the News Got Less Mean

新闻何以不再那么负面

The most read article of all time on BuzzFeed contains no photographs of celebrity nip slips and no inflammatory ranting. It’s a series of photos called “21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity,” which has pulled in nearly 14 million visits so far. At Upworthy too, hope is the major draw. “This kid just died. What he left behind is wondtacular,” an Upworthy post about a terminally ill teen singer, earned 15 million views this summer and has raised more than $300,000 for cancer research.

新闻聚合网站BuzzFeed上有史以来阅读次数最多的一篇文章既没有女明星的露点照，也没有煽动性的呼号，而是一组照片，名为“21张照片让你重拾对人性的信念”。迄今为止，这组照片已经吸引了将近1400万次访问。Upworthy网站主打的也是希望牌。网站上一篇题为“那名孩子刚走了，留给我们一个了不起的奇迹”的帖文，讲述了一个病重少年歌手的事迹，在这个夏季被阅读了1500万次，募集了30多万美元的癌症研究基金。

The recipe for attracting visitors to stories online is changing. Bloggers have traditionally turned to sarcasm and snark to draw attention. But the success of sites like BuzzFeed and Upworthy, whose philosophies embrace the viral nature of