"We live in a society today that loves a soap opera,” NBC chief Jeff Zucker told the Times, trying to shrug off his current troubles, but he’s exactly wrong. This is no Tigergate, which we follow out of prurient interest. This has evolved into a national passion play about greed, betrayal, stupidity, incompetence, and corporate cluelessness. In other words, the late night fiasco has become the perfect allegory for the Great Recession"