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Spot the missing word:

Whether you prefer to read siouxcityjournal.com on your laptop, tablet or phone, our new design gives you an optimal viewing experience tailored to your digital device of choice.

Give up? It’s “desktop”. The SCJ and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier have made their websites “much more visual”, which is code for “optimized for mobile”, which is code for “You want to read TEXT? On a MONITOR? So passe. Silly oldthinker.”

On one full-size browser window, the Courier’s website shows 10 headlines, and that shrinks to five if the window is less than 1000 pixels wide. By contrast, the Quad-City Times, still using the old Lee website design, shows seven in a “quick clicks” line, five in a rotating window, and seven in a vertical list of headlines.

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