The New York Post leaves much to be read between the lines of its story on how Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller site sought to unearth a plagiarism scandal surrounding a New Yorker piece on the Conversative billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries.

This past weekend, Mediaite contributor Jasmine Moy took in the New Yorker Festival, one of the city’s hottest cultural tickets every fall, usually featuring very smart people sitting in chairs on stage, talking thoughtfully about smart things, for longer than five minutes and without interruption. Why is there so little of that on the telly? It even had its share of naughtiness: “They were small breasts, in keeping with the understated nature of the magazine.” If you want to find out the context for that remark, you’ll have to read on.

A few weeks back New Yorker scribe Jane Mayer penned a much-discussed piece about the nefarious backroom dealings of the billionaire Koch brothers. Suffice to say, the Kochs were not pleased with the article, perhaps had they just spoken to Mayer in the first place things might have been different.

Plenty of space has been devoted in the last year to figuring out who the Tea Party movement is, why they exist, and who is in charge. Today The New Yorker reveals it has an answer to the most burning question of all: who is paying for it? Probably not who you think.

In yet another Future of the News discussion, it would be far too easy to retread the same tired information. But with leaders in three separate media branches — including Dan Rather and the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer — at his disposal, moderator Victor Navasky didn’t limit the agenda for the evening. Instead, he kept it open-ended and tried to address the question of the evening: What’s in store for the future of media?