**THR: YOU’VE TALKED RECENTLY ABOUT HOW YOU’VE LOST A LOT OF YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR THE JOB. HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT IN JOURNALISM?
Hume: I think it’s the indispensable ingredient in TV news, and maybe in news in general. You see someone like Mike Wallace, who went on and on and on to a very advanced age, but he was fine because he never lost his zest for this stuff. The cycles or events didn’t seem to tire him out. I feel all the time when I’m covering the news that I’ve seen this before. That’s valuable because it may give you insight into how things are going to go or what they mean. But after awhile, it makes it less interesting. And that’s a bad thing. That makes me less valuable, I think.**
Do you sense that Brit had lost his enthusiasm? During the end of this election I think he was getting totally disgusted with the whole thing. (And rally couldn’t voice his views.)
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I really hadn't noticed it until I read about his impending retirement. Maybe he was getting disgusted with how the rest of the media failed to embrace his "fair and balanced" concept of reporting. The Grapevine segments seemed to grow increasingly cynical this year, as he told of glaring MSM pro-0bama media bias.