Mr Silvers Midori was 14 when I wrote the first feature about her I consider your suggestion that I wrote negative reviews about many young artists vandalism of its own sort may I remind you that you called me a thoughtless nasty person and many other things on the Evancho page I have deliberately not said anything about Evancho s parents although no child could be paraded in public without getting somebody s permission no You have taken a difference of opinion about one single deeply controversial young artist and turned it into a crusade in the pretense of objectivity The Barry mention suggests that my departure from the Post had something to do with my angry response to the harassment I had been receiving from his minions who then publicized the letter everywhere they could Is paid publicity the criterion for importance in your mind whether Barry or Evancho Are Marion Barry and Jackie Evancho that much more important to my career than oh say my work with Glenn Gould Virgil Thomson Dawn Powell Sigrid Undset Robert Green Ingersoll the record company I founded the thousands of people I ve reviewed and interviewed Certainly the article as it stands right now would suggest that I m only replying to this because I respect and admire Wikipedia even though it includes people who seem to think that calling people nasty thoughtless liars is acceptable behavior