KNWA appreciation

Last night we were spared wall-to-wall weather coverage during the 9 p.m. hour as KNWA focuses on Northwest Arkansas instead of lumping us in with what some master of euphemism dubbed "The River Valley," where bad weather usually goes when it leaves Oklahoma. But it was funny, given how ABC and 40/29 devoted significant chunks of their putative news programs to hyping that alarmist bird flu flick, that it wound up getting pre-empted by similarly alarmist coverage of some thunderstorms 60 miles away that turned out, as usual, not to be as bad as they might've been.