
The good news about Ultragrrrl's latest piece of rapturous press-praise: It's in way-late-to-the-game
Vanity Fair, meaning that the backlash can be only a few weeks away. The bad news: Considering that the glowingly sycophantastic piece is credited to Ultra's long-time friend Marc Spitz,
VF no longer believes it's a conflict of interest to allow IM best-buddies to write about one another. In one of the weakest disclosures ever, Spitz notes that he and Ultra (we can't believe we're calling her that) are merely former
Spin magazine "co-workers," conveniently leaving out the fact that they're actually
late-night party pals who
sometimes DJ together. That probably explains why the item contains not even the slightest trace of skepticism—and why no one at the magazine bothered to ground the rather lofty claim that Interpol or My Chemical Romance would never have made it without Ultra's help. Yay, bestest friends working together! Yay, bad journalism!
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