the.com/front page

The one page that decides what an entire society argues about tonight.

means The main first page of a newspaper, where editors place the stories they judge most important or most likely to grab a reader's eye.

from Straightforward compound of 'front' (the foremost part, from Latin frons, the brow or forehead) and 'page' (from Latin pagina, a column of writing). The literal sense — the page facing you first when you open the paper — hardened over the 1800s into a figure of speech for anything considered the most prominent, urgent, or newsworthy thing around.

origin
newspapers put bait above the fold
digital version
reddit literally renamed itself this
editors know
placement persuades more than the headline
psychology
first thing seen gets treated as most important
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