>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/10/05/last-minute-administration-payment-shutdown-445-million-friends-public-b

Hmm. For an organisation claiming to report 'media bias' I would have thought it wiser for them to display a little less of it themselves :-}

"The $445 million the Treasury handed over to CPB was more than the $119 million the Treasury paid on the first day of the shutdown in interest on U.S. government debt that is held by the public. It was also more than $171 million in Social Security benefits the Treasury paid that day. But it was less than the $592 million the Treasury paid for Veterans Affairs programs on the first day of the shutdown."

Whilst the above may be literally true it forgets to mention that the $445m is, AFAICS, the total PBS subsidy for two years ; all of the other figures are *per day* e.g the VA budget for 2013 alone is about $140bn)