The US controlled paper, Tagesspiegel, had directives to preserve a "non-partisan" attitude, and that it could not print Nazi material, damage Military Security, or maliciously attack an Occupying Power, but the editors were otherwise free to choose news material. General Robert A McClure, Chief of Military Governments Office of Information Control further exhorted all papers to give balanced treatment to the news. He admonished that any paper found to feature items favorable or unfavorable towards an Occupying Power while suppressing the opposite point of view would be disciplined.