Yep, I cancelled a FREE subscription that I had gotten with airline miles. That was about ten years ago. When they were sold for $1, I thought “still too much!”
Yah. I was annoyed recently when I was told "only one renewal to the WSJ with airline miles" -- but if they don't want customers, oh well.
Family had a Newsweak subscription in the 60s; it went away during changes in the 70s, and I never personally subscribed -- it wasn't worth it. And even then Times' "We're there / We care" teeheesillyvee campaign was so stupidly ludicrous I couldn't be bothered. Don't remember when USN&WR went down the tubes.
They're all tabloid garbage now -- and that's an insult to the tabloids these days. But let them keep pretending they're important and relevant as long as they can; McDonald's is waiting...