I was a subscriber to The New Yorker magazine for a year: I paid triple what an actual Newyorker would have, was not allowed to enter any contests and was not elligible for any promotions or discounts.
TNY also had the worst critics I have ever read in any publication. All of them were fucking idiots who knew next to nothing of the subject they were assigned to write about, be it movies, music, TV, and probably bars and restaurants, too.