Condé Nast Traveler flubs it again, mistaking Paris for London, sort of
The once-readable travel mag puts a bunch of Greek islands in the wrong archipelago
Anyone read the September issue of Condé Nast Traveler yet? No? Good. It reads, overall, like the kind of magazine put out by a gaggle of spoiled interns and future divorcees who can’t wait to get back to their e-cigarette breaks.
(ed.: Damn!)
Aside from an okay item about Europe’s least friendly island (Corsica), it’s just so…flabby. Ozempic for dying print mags, anyone? So lazy, too. Consider the small feature on page 33 or thereabouts, under the headline “Homecoming in the Cyclades”, in which putative expert/serial peddler of purple and faintly misandrist prose Rachel Howard brazenly misidentifies the islands of Patmos and Chios as being part of the Cycladic islands — when in fact, neither one is!
Patmos is one of the Dodecanese islands (duh) and Chios is a separate thing altogether, darling. We reached out to two Condé Nast editors for a comment or explanation, but neither responded. Maybe they’re on cigarette break?
When you work at Condé Nast, of course, you don’t admit to mistakes, from endorsing a literal loser like Kamala Harris to misleading readers by flunking some basic European geography. Don’t believe us? See for yourselves:
In other news, nobody is reading print magazines anymore. Oh , and u wanna hear about what happens when someone works too long at a place like Condé Nast? There’s a reason why people in New York call it Condé Nasty, baby…