Why did I cancel? I had become increasingly irritated with their coverage, which since Gannett bought them was going more and more the way of the LA paper. (Remember this was the old Pulliam paper, which was run by relatives of Dan Quayle and Steve Goldsmith.) The last straw for me was the morning after the Supreme Court decision in Bush's favor, in which they said it was 5-4 instead of 7-2, and they even had PICTURE of the justices aligned in that manner. I spoke to the managing editor who made a lame story about how the woman on the desk that night didn't get all the information right away. Since I, as a housewife, was well aware of the decision hours before their deadline, I told him that they were either lying or incompetent. I was so upset I started to cry...because that paper had been part of my entire life.
But I am glad I cancelled it. They lost a loyal subscriber and have lost a lot more of them over the past year.
I recommend that people cancel but make sure you write or speak to someone on the editorial board, not just in the subscription department. It needs to make an impact, and they need to know their actions have consequences.
I let my WSJ subscription lapse during the Moniker Licking episode due to the vile opeds written by Al Hunt. I sent a letter to WSJ as long as they paid money for Hunt to write his vile lies, I would never subscribe to the WSJ! I got back some feeble response about fair balance. I told them that Hunt was no different than a rabid pit bull, and I would never spend my money to pay for his rabid attacks.