The front page of a newspaper contains the biggest stories and pictures in that edition. Other significant stories may also find space on the front page if they are deemed especially important or interesting. The front page also teases other stories that will appear in the rest of the publication.
When someone says something is front-page, it usually means it is a story of great importance or interest and will be widely shared. However, it can also refer to any other page in a newspaper or magazine. The back pages are less important, but can still contain interesting news and information.
Mad Magazine’s back-page mainstay was the “Fold-In”, a puzzle that required bending the page vertically to reveal a hidden satiric answer and image. Mad’s creator, Mike Jaffee, coined the word for this feature in one of his early articles for the magazine.
Three Jane Does who had been sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage in 2014, claiming that the site facilitated their exploitation by publishing ads that sold them for sex. The district court dismissed the case, but on appeal the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal, finding that Backpage was performing traditional publisher functions with regard to third-party content and thus were shielded by CDA Section 230.
The reversal of the decision allows the Jane Does to pursue their complaint against Backpage for violating their civil rights and for facilitating their exploitation. This was part of a campaign by Fitzgibbon Media (at the time, a well-known progressive/liberal public relations firm) that enlisted support from actors, musicians, politicians and others in a bid to pressure Backpage into changing its policies.
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