Sununu To Stop Opining on Cable/Internet Issues at Boston Globe, Group Says

Ex-Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., will stop writing about cable and Internet issues in The Boston Globe due to conflict of interest concerns, Media Matters said Tuesday. It cited a blog post by Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor, who said that Globe Editorial Page Editor Ellen Clegg told him an understanding had been reached with Sununu that he would "not write about cable and Internet access." Sununu is a Time Warner Cable board member and an honorary co-chairman of Broadband for America, which Media Matters says is backed by broadband providers and the NCTA. Media Matters criticized the paper for allowing Sununu to complain about Internet regulation "without disclosing he has been paid over $750,000 by broadband interests." Broadband for America, the Globe's Clegg and Sununu didn't immediately comment.