\u201cI wish somehow we could right that ship,\u201d Lunden said. \u201cBut with AI, I think we\u2019re going to see losses of jobs in media, just like we\u2019re seeing them in Amazon and everywhere else.\u201d [Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attributed<\/a> this year\u2019s extensive layoffs<\/a> to the company\u2019s increased rollout of \u2018generative AI and agents.\u2019]<\/p>\n After pausing for a moment, Lunden added, \u201cBut you know what? They can\u2019t replace a host sitting there in that chair, saying good morning to you in the morning. There\u2019s nothing that can be said for the chemistry of two people on the air.\u201d<\/p>\n Outside of AI-generated deepfakes, Lunden was also quick to acknowledge how she\u2019s benefited from the new technologies ushered in since leaving \u201cGMA\u201d in 1997. She recalls feeling siloed from the audience she once greeted at every sunrise.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hardest part of leaving was disconnecting from the American audience,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause there was no social media, it was truly a disconnect. It kind of freaked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n That void was eventually filled when she first logged onto social media and reconnected with her old fans. When Lunden was on air, she had \u201creams of people [on staff] that did nothing but answer letters,\u201d but the direct connection on social media was on a different level.<\/p>\n \u201cPretty soon I had fifty thousand, sixty thousand followers, and my husband said, \u2018You cannot be talking to all those people every day.\u2019\u201d She chuckled, \u201cBut boy, I give it a try.\u201d<\/p>\n The lively \u201cGMA\u201d celebration at Disney\u2019s New York headquarters united Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan with Joan Lunden and fellow veterans Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer. The event followed the previous night\u2019s airing of President Trump\u2019s confrontational \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview, his first since suing CBS over what he described as an altered version of Kamala Harris\u2019 election-season appearance. The timing underscored the increasingly fraught relationship between politics, the press and the billionaire owners now shaping major media companies.<\/p>\n \u201cWe obviously know that the major networks are little by little all becoming owned by the richest people in the world,\u201d Lunden said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want their opinions and their political viewpoints to seep into our business. But I\u2019m a glass half full kind of girl. I really think that the journalism, as an industry, will be able to stand strong. We\u2019ll still be here ten years from now celebrating the 60th anniversary, and you\u2019ll still be able to ask me any question you want.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Lunden, the veteran journalist who co-anchored \u201cGood Morning America\u201d from 1980 to 1997, doesn\u2019t mince her concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[129550,129551,49,48,75,25866,129549,29216,35825,348],"class_list":["post-285373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-american-population","tag-anniversary-celebration","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-good-morning-america","tag-joan-lunden","tag-pew-research-center","tag-social-media-platforms","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e32c9aa7841bbe2a1ba4a13391d6a64a.jpeg\"\/)
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