article_snippet.sent: There can't always be a TV camera rolling when the big news happens - and Saturday Night Live has taken network news to task for how task paper over the cracks.
article_snippet.sent: The NBC sketch show parodied the daytime CNN Newsroom, which turned into a series of let-downs when it emerged there was no footage for the stories they were covering.
article_snippet.sent: But the ingenious producers for the skit managed to cover up with abysmal animations to illustrate the Germanwings crash, U.S.-Iran diplomacy, and domestic politics.
article_snippet.sent: Cutting edge: SNL writers joked that CNN's animations look like SNL writers belong in 1985.
article_snippet.sent: Cecily Strong, playing anchor Brooke Baldwin, introduced a badly-animated hand grasping at a doorknob.
article_snippet.sent: A reporter then chimed in: 'Cecily Strong, playing anchor Brooke Baldwin were lucky to get the same team who did the Dire Straits Money for Nothing music video in 1985.'
article_snippet.sent: The problems continued when CNN was unable to get a fly-on-the-wall view of Iran's nuclear negotiations - and went for a puppet show instead.
article_snippet.sent: Bobby Moynihan, playing a reporter on the ground, explained by saying: 'We couldn't get any footage from the actual negotiations - but once again CNN has the next best thing'. '
article_snippet.sent: Next best thing': For the next best thing' next story, CNN had no footage of the Iran nuclear animations, so went with Muppets-style puppets .
article_snippet.sent: Viewers were confronted with four Muppets-style puppets, including one representing John Kerry.
article_snippet.sent: The network later added in 'random commentary' from Don Lemon, played by Michael Che, which consisted of the anchor repeating 'black people need to pull up black people pants.'
article_snippet.sent: Brenna Williams, an associate producer at The network, said in response to the Iran sketch: 'Don't be surprised if I pitch a puppet politics piece on Monday'
highlights_snippet.sent: Sketch mocked network's coverage of air disaster and other major stories .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Brooke Baldwin stand-in admitted network had no actual footage of news .
  