When executives at Belo, the parent company of Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper, announced the executives who will run the company after its spinoff next year, a couple of names were missing: current editor Robert Mong and current managing editor George Rodrigue (Jim Schutze’s favorite News employee).

The Belo-ologists among us have pondered this development for a week. We have sent emails, pored over tea leaves, poked at chicken entrails and otherwise tried to figure out what this means. All of the people named are business types; none of them have anything to do with the editorial operation. This does not seem to bode well for the news side of the business.

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And this is what we came up with: