This really has to suck. When I worked full-time in the newspaper business I used to bitch about annual raises that did nothing more than stick you into a higher tax bracket. I can’t imagine how I would have handled a situation in which my pay was cut, as Belo is doing, as well as suspending pension contributions to help cut costs. You would think that maybe it would be a little easier dealing with the situation while knowing that the overall state of the economy and the newspaper industry in particular stinks to high heaven. Well, no, I take that back. I wouldn’t think that but maybe some would. It’s somehow different when something dreadful happens as opposed to just thinking “what if” something terrible happened. It’s also different when something totally crappy happens to you instead of someone else.