New York Times media columnist Ben Smith has brought considerable buzz to his weekly column, which happens to be as rich in messy drama as it is in scoops. On Sunday nights, media nerds eagerly await the latest iteration of the Media Equation, which Smith inherited at the Times when he joined the paper from BuzzFeed News. Thankfully for those nerds, Smith has yet to miss a Sunday. His columns track the most talked-about media organizations and figures, from the scrappy (a dispatch from Dimes Square on an irreverent newspaper called the Drunken Canal) to the powerful (a profile of the lawyer who’s really in charge at Fox). He has kept a watchful eye on the