When Sizemore takes the paper out of the sales box, the story on him is on the front page. When he's reading it, the supposed back page has the margin on the left of the page instead of the right.
Even though the Arlen Bystander fired Peggy for her article about Sizemore, both she and the Bystander would have been defendants in a libel suit: Peggy for writing an untruthful story, and the Bystander for publishing it.