The Globe reported that the Metro was shrinking, and Joe Keohane at Boston Daily noted that the Globe got details wrong. Then the Metro trumped that little blunder by reporting that the Globe was planning "hundreds" of layoffs and would raise the price of the paper to 75 cents.

The Globe told the Herald that's not so. Meanwhile, the Herald stands by, endlessly amused, not the least because the Globe and the Metro are cousins who are owned (or part-owned, in the case of the Metro) by the New York Times company.

Adam Reilly has a statement from the Globe that says the Metro was factually incorrect, but the statement doesn't take layoffs off the table.

What's going on here? The part about paper prices going up is true. But if the local papers want to rumble, then they need to take it out to the parking lot of Morrissey Boulevard and stop confusing the rest of us. Meanwhile, Keohane is totally amped at the type of revenge stories that will ensue between the Globe and Metro. Wait ... that has a ring like Toronto's Globe & Mail. Hmmm ...