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NPR Catches Hell Over Easter Mistake

The NPR newsroom should be forgiven for this biblical blunder.

Is NPR's newsroom a "rabble of pagans"?

NPR's Two-Way Blog made an embarrassing mistake in a that ran on Good Friday; a headline on a 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 in the NPR newsroom.

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