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Fake News & catchy headlines sold papers & twisted history

“Don”'t judge a book by its cover;” likewise, don”'t judge a cemetery by it”'s grave markers or lack of markers. The best clues are in the card files of the Caretaker”'s Cottage.

There is something about cemeteries that lends itself to fantastic stories.  Over the years a number of these stories about people and events associated with Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery have appeared in the major local newspapers.

Early papers certainly had as one of their missions the goal of informing their readers, but in order to do so they had to develop a following.  In an age when the newspaper industry was thriving, competition was fierce, and there was nothing like an eye-catching headline or slightly-embellished story to sell papers, even if the story was not strictly speaking true.  Those papers helped spread misinformation and shape people”'s perceptions about the cemetery.  Some of those mistaken ideas are:

No one (well, hardly anyone) is buried in Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery

In the late-teens and 1920s, several thousand people were disinterred from the cemetery and reburied elsewhere.  The numbers of these removals varied considerably but news stories left the impression that the cemetery was being emptied out.… Read the rest “Fake News & catchy headlines sold papers & twisted history”