A CLASH OF IDEAS:

The United States wants a democracy to rise from the cinders of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship. To insure freedom, Allied military forces build a privately owned press free of government control in West Germany. People can read what they want and make up their own minds.

The Soviet Union rebuilds its Berlin sector as a socialistic republic. The government controls all economic activity, including the media. News is a teaching tool. People are supposed to read it and learn what the government wants them to know.