It's too late to appeal to anyone further left than moderate. Journalists' primary audience are people who are looking for an authoritative source to verify their beliefs. Those people will leave if they "shift to the right" (as they would perceive it) and most people aren't going to start trusting them again after they've spent so much time insulting people outside their target audience.

If elections worked properly and if this country were an actual functioning republic local elections would be the main focus of most voters. But CIA Today is pulling a faggot move knowing Kammy Kameltoe will lose.

Besides, who reads their shit newspaper? I've never seen one outside of an airport or a hotel.