I was in YAF for a few years also. I remember holding a protest outside the IBM building in Chicago one frigid night - I think IBM was doing business with the Commies - and although it was across the street from the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper wouldn't send a reporter over to cover it. A pro ERA demo, with about one-third of the participants we had, made it into the next day's paper. I figured out MSM bias pretty early.
Mike -- it was the same in my day. The press would give front page coverage to three druggies protesting the Vietnam War, but our YAF rallies against the Commies couldn't buy a column inch in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Not only is the MSM the same now as it was then, it's still a lot of the same people covering the news, they just dress a little better.