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