A classic example of newspaper spin

I'm often asked to explain why I consider newspapers to be more accomplished spin-doctors than any No. 10 apparatchik. As Monkey has pointed out, the coverage of Ken Loach's movie, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, offers a classic example of press spinning. When the film won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, The Sun published and sold in Britain damned it as "the most pro-IRA ever". Yet The Sun produced in Ireland hailed it for giving "the Brits a tanning". Similarly, the British Daily Mail buried the Cannes victory and then ran a piece scorning Loach as a Marxist who loathes his country. Meanwhile, the Irish Daily Mail recognised Loach's Cannes award as an "Irish success story". Obviously, it's an instance of double standards. But it's more than that. It shows just how papers, by both omission and commission, varnish "the truth". Is this not a disgrace?