![]() ![]() What convinced the editors to greenlight Kirchick’s pitch, they wrote, was that he “wanted to know why so few of the accusations against Hammer were examined seriously by the media or law enforcement.” The resulting story, published on February 4 - which has become Air Mail’s most-read story ever with, according to a source there, more than 340,000 views in its first few days - was touted by Carter and Stanley as a “fact-checked version of what happened to turn the movie star into a Hollywood pariah.” After all, Kirchick, who told The Hill TV that he was “approached last fall through an intermediary with the opportunity to interview Armie Hammer for the first time,” does not typically cover celebrity scandals and primarily writes political commentary as a writer-at-large for Air Mail, a columnist at Tablet, and the author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. “We were pretty skeptical when James Kirchick said he wanted to interview the actor Armie Hammer about his downfall,” wrote Air Mail co-editors Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley in their editor’s note on why they ended up publishing the first interview with the movie star after multiple women accused him of sexual abuse. ![]() Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual violence and abuse.
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