East Germany presented a unique situation, separate from the other eastern bloc countries in that it shared allied occupation. Following the Second World War, of the six major newspapers in print within occupied Berlin, western governments controlled two and the other four were published by Soviet entities. The post war phenomena presented an opportunity to study the Soviet Print Media as compared to the French and the US controlled papers operating in the same region. Phillip Davison, then Chief of the Plans and Directives Branch, Information Control Division of the U.S. Office of Military Government, Berlin, found through an objective mathematical analyses of the news content published in each of the six papers, that while the western affiliates presented balanced articles on most subjects, that is both the positive and negative side of the story, that the Soviet sponsored papers tended to publish articles with either a very positive or a very negative bias, and rarely both. Furthermore, in his December 1946 analysis, the Soviet favorable stories dominated the print space, followed by a lesser yet still prominent number of stories that ridiculed western events.