I agree the flag is supported by a wooden frame but is that flag there? When you blow it up the blues don’t really match around the flag and at the bottom some of the hay is red. They may all be facing a flag but that flag looks like it was put there in photoshop. Also notice the red hay around the band on the right hand side of the flag. That band would be about where the last row of red would finish.
I see bits of red in different areas of the hay, but it could be completely unrelated to the flag. I don’t see the different blues you are talking about. Are you referring to the sky? Do you have a blown up image you can post?
I guess I have to ask why someone would go to all the trouble to fake this picture. It was clearly at some event where there were a lot of people who would know that there wasn’t actually a huge flag pinned up behind the hay bales. Why would the photoshopper go to the trouble of creating a wooden frame behind the flag yet fail to strip out stray red blotches from the bottom stripe? Why take out the bottom stripe anyway? Plus I think there are explanations for the so-called discrepancies. I don’t trust the media either, but I don’t see the conspiracy here.