READERS MAY REMEMBER New York Times reporter Chris Hedges for having been booed off the stage when he delivered an anti-American commencement speech last year. Now he’s found a friendlier venue — the Association of Opinion Page Editors, for delivering remarks like this:

We’re absolutely reviled around the world, as we should be.

And, no, he wasn’t talking about the American press after Jayson Blair, Eason Jordan, and RatherGate.