For all you bingo players bummed out by the latest smoking ordinances, here's an option that might preserve newspapers as well

Bingo! The idea comes from Mort Zuckerman, the owner of the New York Daily News, a paper even more conservative than the Dallas Morning News. Want to know how conservative it is? On its story announcing the death of Ho Chi Minh (for those old enough to remember Ho Chi Minh), the paper's headline was "Ho becomes good Red."

But that's beside the point now. Zuckerman thinks bingo can help put U.S. newspapers back on a sound financial footing. Here's what Zuckerman told New York magazine:

"The newspapers in England are supported almost exclusively by the profitability of running bingo games on their websites. It attracts an enormous audience. But here, you’re not allowed to do it. The gambling interests and Vegas and other places like that have managed to block any other gambling on the Internet. But London, that’s what they do. The Sun makes millions of dollars off of their bingo games."

OK, Jim Moroney, it's your deal.