A few weeks ago we wrote about the ground war mounting between various media interests that are investing heaps of energy and money in the hyper-local market, and literally hiring hundreds of journalists in the process. In Massachusetts, the competition is especially percolating between AOL's Patch, Boston.

Recovering Journalist blogger Mark Potts today pans the NYT Co. for "wimp[ing] out" in the face of GateHouse Media's lawsuit--and, in the processes, advances the widespread notion that GateHouse's suit was unjustifiable:

[I]n waging an old-fashioned kind of newspaper war, GateHouse brought an antique blunderbuss to bear on a fight over a high-tech mosquito