It’s not like Easter is an important holiday for Christians.
Via Newsbusters:
Dilemma: You’re a thoroughly secularized, liberal TV journalist and the central religious holiday of the Christian faith is coming. You can’t completely ignore it and you can’t show your outright disdain for the faithful and their quaint beliefs. The solution: secularize and trivialize Easter to render it essentially meaningless.
That’s how ABC, CBS and NBC have handled the Easter season recently. Over the last three years, the networks attached the word “Easter” to secular topics 500 times versus religious topics 56 times – that’s about 89 percent. 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 or, in NBC’s words, “drinky-poos.” Chocolate, it turns out, is “the essential part of Easter,” except for Peeps, because “Easter depends on [Peeps].”
During ABC’s “Good Morning America” on March 21, 2013, anchor Josh Elliot deemed “the peep” synonymous with “Easter.” Eight days later, ABC’s weather anchor Sam Champion asked lifestyle anchor Lara Spencer on “Good Morning America,” “This is Easter weekend, which means what?” Spencer responded, “Peeps.”
NBC played copycat on March 30, as co-anchor Erica Hill said the exact same thing (great minds think alike?). That same day, NBC’s Dylan Dreyer announced, “No crazy eyes, crooked beaks, or improper Peeps allowed,” during “Today” and concluded, “Easter depends on this.”