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The Daily Free Press

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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

A viral verdict | On the Record

Addison Schmidt September 23, 2024
As an article from the New York Times notes, there are certain rules that entertainment lawyers play by. They follow a pretty common playbook: deflect, cover or cower, most often behind carefully worded statements or tabloid stories. But the legal team of Sean Combs — the music producer also known as Diddy — has taken a new approach to protecting their disgraced star: They’re defending him on TikTok. 
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Tortured poets or tortured critics? | On the Record

Addison Schmidt April 24, 2024
When criticism is forced into being praise, we lose both those guiding voices and the determination to do better, be better and find music that fits our sound.  
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ beauty is in the eye of the writer’s room | On the Record

Addison Schmidt March 6, 2024
At a certain point, the lines begin to blur — are the SNL writers just making bad jokes, or are they so blinded by conventional attractiveness that they’ve been rendered comically stupid?
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

The lure of the essay | On the Record

Addison Schmidt February 21, 2024
Readers are no longer interested in a core principle of what makes the personal essay great — writers who are not perfect people.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ orchestrated unnecessary backlash | On the Record

Addison Schmidt February 8, 2024
Viewers who criticize Bradley Cooper's six-and-a-half-year process of preparing for his role in 'Maestro' is unnecessary. Judge the performance, not the process.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Death by Pitchfork | On the Record

Addison Schmidt January 24, 2024
Condé Nast’s merge with champion music publication Pitchfork threatens to kill the spirited focus on the underground music scene that made Pitchfork worth reading.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Facebook parent pages might be better left offline | On the Record

Addison Schmidt November 14, 2023
The latest debacle on the Boston University Parents Page over the "Shut It Down For Palestine" protest shows how Facebook parents page enable the coddling of college-aged children.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

I won’t mind it if you stay | On the Record

Addison Schmidt September 13, 2023
On Sept. 1, I received an email from the Boston Globe opinion section. I have the bad habit of allowing these emails to build up like dust in my inbox, unread and unnoticed, but the headline — which addressed a nameless subject — caught my attention. It read: “We can’t miss you if you won’t go away.” 
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