The decision by The Bug’s Media Glass House to scrap its coveted annual Hyperbole of the Year award several years ago is now being reconsidered, given a rash of outlandish media exaggerations of late that surely deserve some form of recognition.

The Bug back in 2019 first realised that the award was becoming a little too predictable with Channels 9, 7 and 10 sharing the spoils over the previous seven years for their promotions of various reality TV programs.

You know the general spiel: On Sunday night, The Farmer Wants a Meaningless Root On The Side reaches its amazing climax that will shock the entire world!

The savings to The Bug were also a factor in axing the award, given that the trophy (at top) was not a perpetual one and being, physically, one of the world’s largest ever presented in any field of human endeavour, cost us a motza to give away each January.

As mentioned, the axing of that award is now being questioned in the wake (pun intended) of some truly outstanding media descriptions of the effect on the world of Queen Elizabeth’s recent death and her state funeral.

We are indebted to highly respected former columnist at The Courier-Mail Terry Sweetman for alerting us to this one from the online news site, inQueensland.

In a tweet, Terry wrote: This is the conclusion after viewing the videos of the past 1000 years. I dunno, but Queen Victoria’s farewell at the height of empire might have given it a run for its money.

Giving inQueensland a run for its money timespan wise, in the MGH’s humble opinion, was Channel 9’s plug for their royal funeral coverage, declaring the funeral would be “the most important event the world will ever see”.

On face value, this outrageous claim leaves the 1000 years comment well and truly in its wake, seeing our sun has another five billions years left to before it fizzles out and freezes us all to death if we haven’t already moved somewhere else by then?

Sure, Channel 9 might know something we don’t; perhaps that the world will be raining nuclear weapons next month after Putin drops one on Kiev? That would make the 1000 years claim the winner.

Away from things post-Elizabethan, Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter FitzSimons in his piece yesterday provided a wonderful example of MSM hyperbole to show why we instigated the annual award in the first place.

Peter wrote that racism accusations leveled at a Melbourne AFL club had “shaken to its core, the club, the AFL and even Australia, and rightly so.”

Really, Peter? Australian shaken to its core? We’re talking Aussie rules here, mate, not rugby union!

Were The Bug’s hyperbole of the year competition still running, and were this not a royal funeral year, this massive over-exaggeration would surely have had Peter right in the running for the 2022 trophy.

We’re confident the whole wide world would agree with us on this!