NPR Catches Hell Over Easter Mistake

Is NPR’s newsroom a “rabble of pagans”?

NPR’s Two-Way Blog made an embarrassing mistake in a story that ran on Good Friday; a headline on a Washington Post column said the NPR report “mangles the definition of Easter” — and that’s an understatement. Some media commentators and a few readers (including one whose complaint letter included the quote above) cited the error as evidence of the lack of religious literacy in the NPR newsroom.

Here’s how the NPR blog described Easter: “Easter — the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere at all, but rather arose into heaven — is on Sunday.”

Corrected, the piece now describes Easter, accurately, as “the day Christians celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection.”

More From NPR: