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"Keep political views out of the paper?" ROFL! I don't what Bill Keller means by that since the Gray Lady's liberal urban orientation is a matter of record. Sure, it would be great if the New York Times started treating Flyover Country with something approaching less than condescension. Personally after decades of liberal bias, a do-over strikes this American as too little, too late.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

The point, Keller wrote, "is not that we should begin recruiting reporters and editors for their political outlook; it is part of our professional code that we keep our political views out of the paper.

. . . and the fact that you think you possibly could - never mind think that you actually do - " keep our political views out of the paper" is sufficient to assure that you in fact project insufferably selfrighteous leftism.
O'Sullivan's Law
John O'Sullivan, columnist and former editor of National Review offers this proposed Sullivan's First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right wing will over time become left wing."

The point is that we want a range of experience. We have a recruiting committee that tracks promising outside candidates, and that committee has already begun to consider ways to enrich the variety of backgrounds of our reporters and editors.

But that fails to work in practice, for the simple reason that you are recruiting "good" journalists - and your idea of a good journalist is the root of the problem, recruit them in whatever city and of whatever color you will. Journalism is superficial because of its deadlines, negative because of its imperative to attract attention, and arrogant because it believes in its own virtue ("objectivity").
Arrogant, superficial negativity is cynicism. When you are cynical yourself, and you are trying to hire good cynics, it's remarkably unilikely that you will hire people who are not leftists.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate