Corn-y! NYC journalist mocked for pompous piece about trip to Midwest

This guy’s take on fly-over country crashed and burned.

A journalist from Brooklyn got mercilessly mocked for a “condescending” article about his trip to the Midwest — after writing he was stunned to find “more than just corn fields” and even “trendy restaurants.” The Insider article by Frank Olito chronicles his recent road trip to Chicago and Detroit in an article titled, “I’m a New Yorker who visited the Midwest for the first time. Here are 15 things that surprised me.”