The Chronicle recently ran a story by Rhea Davis and Rosanna Ruiz on a spate of vandalism that has seen cell phone and radio towers in northern Harris and southern Montgomery counties damaged significantly in the last two months. According to legal authorities, there are no leads and no motives.
The story is unobjectionable, although we can’t help but wonder why it took two staff members to compile.
Maybe one of the reporters was responsible for the penultimate sentence:
Cell phone towers have sparked controversy in recent years as some companies have proposed putting the towers in or near residential communities.
Nobody in the story asserted that the vandals were motivated by opposition to cell phone towers in residential areas. Indeed, the story made it clear that the motive remains unknown. But perhaps one of the reporters hails from the Chronicle‘s Department of Non Sequiturs and hadn’t met her departmental quota when this article was written.
That’s the only explanation we can come up with. Feel free to offer alternative theories on our discussion board.
