First, let me preface this blog entry with this news. I was a writer at American Media, specifically Star magazine, a few years ago.
I was having the time of my life there until some psycho sent anthrax to our building. I (along with many of my colleagues) endured 60 days of the stomach shredding antibiotic, Cipro. Then, all of a sudden, American Media CEO David Pecker wanted to move Star to New York. It was a shock to the South Florida staff. They sent some of our replacements down from New York so we could train them. We worked for Bonnie Fuller for three months in Boca during the "transition" period. She made it very clear that she didn't care what any of us had to say. Heck, we were just South Florida bumpkins, or so she thought. She was getting massages at the Boca Raton Hotel (hours passed deadline) while the rest of us were slaving away into the night. Believe me, there is a reason her ex-employees started a support site called, I survived Bonnie.

American Media CEO David Pecker has unfortunately decided to renew Bonnie Fuller's contract.

Here is the disturbing news, straight from the April 11th edition of the New York Post:

"American Media's David Pecker has "full confidence" in Bonnie Fuller and will be renewing her contract. The company reps also assured us that, contrary to our speculation yesterday, Star and the National Enquirer will not be put on the block . . . "

Here's the scoop on American Media. The only guarantee is that there is no guarantee. One minute you're the shining star of the newsroom, breaking stories days ahead of respected news organizations. Then the next day, you're tossed out into the street like yesterday's garbage. Gwyenth Paltrow once called Bonnie Fuller the devil. A statement like that would make a normal person cry. But in Bonnie-ville, it's an ego boost--a validation of her ability to get a rise out of the most famous people in the world. If you want to really look at the woman, aside from her string of successes at glossy mags all over the world, she has no clue of what women really want. She has dumbed down the magazine industry. She is in the spa getting massages while her army of workers gets the magazine out. She has created a knock off obsession within the magazine world and people have stopped buying her publications because they look like everything else that's on the supermarket shelf. Before Bonnie took over American Media, they were creating magazines that were uniquely trashy and scandalous. Now they are a carbon copy of everything else that's out there. Paris Hilton, the Olsen twins, Brangelina, Nicole Richie and Tomkat. This is all you can read about in a magazine anymore. There is no more variety. It was the variety that made these magazines addicting. I don't know what Pecker expected a New York staff could do for the Enquirer. The staff he had here was more than capable and he didn't have to break the bank paying them since the cost of living here is a lot less.