"What was most fun was ragging on them when they kept calling trying to get me to come back."
I enjoy the same sport with my local liberal rag paper also. I get to tell them that their editorial positions advocate taking money out of my pocket and that me not subscribing is my way of taking money out of theirs.
Recently, they started sending me solicitations with self-addressed, stamped envelopes. I send them back empty just to make them pay the postage. We'll see how long this lasts.
When I moved from California into Southern Oregon, it only took three days for the local newspapers to send someone to my door.
I told them after reading their trash for the past three months it would be like funding Al Queda; telemarketing the paper to Iran, North Korea, Syria or France would sell many more subscriptions than what they would get around here...