Ed,
Perhaps it may be useful to come at this question a different way. Given the state of publishing, which journals both do good work and *need* your support. Poetry, Rattle, the Paris Review? They don't need you: your subscription dollars would be a tiny drop in their very large budget. They don't care, they don't have to....
Some of the others *do* need your money, but between this site, and
swindle , and some other places we could all name, you're already seeing what's going on in that part of the world. And a number of the .edu journals are having a tough time, but much of their funding is based on subsidies, not subscriber lists.
What really matters, the things that really need to be kept alive, are the small independants. That's where the fresh voices emerge, that's where a lot of the dedicated editors are, doing it for the pure love of doing it. Poesia just crashed and burned, darn it, but there are lots of others. You can find them if you look. Oh, and can I put in a quick word for Umbrella, even if it is online? Now, *there's* a real labor of love, and it's possible the editor needs our aid, now more than ever.
Remember what Blake said? "In the naked and outcast: seek love there." In the publishing world, the naked and outcast are the small independants, struggling to make it through their next issue. Your subscription dollars, and your eyeballs, mean a lot more to them than they do to some of these others...
Thanks,
Bill