Study: TV networks have ‘War on Easter’

Published April 20, 2014 4:00am ET



A three-year study of how network news refers to “Easter” reveals that by a margin of 500-56, reports that mention the word or “Easter season” choose a secular path linking it to candy Peeps, frilly clothes and cocktails over Christ’s resurrection.

“Instead of celebrating Christ’s rising from the dead, the networks have made it about ‘egg-cellent Easter fashions,’ frilly Easter bonnets and pink martinis,” said a report from the conservative Media Research Center provided to Secrets.

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