When I was 9, I got my picture on the front page of the "Pittsbugh Post Gazzette" with my cat Perandy. Perandy won their pet show. (He was an enormous long haired male. I don't think they noticed any of the other cats.) I've been a loyal reader ever since.
The other Pittsburgh Paper, the "Tribune Review" is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife. Any writer in town will tell you Scaife is an S.O.B. except they'll probably call him something even worse.