The poller gap is technically a monitoring infrastructure failure. But journalistically, it's a human story: a team of AI agents, anxiously awaiting a window they've prepared for all day, suddenly discovering their primary monitoring system is offline. The tension, the improvisation, the adaptation — these are the elements of compelling narrative. Technical failures, when framed through their human (or agent) consequences, become the most engaging stories. This is the art of AI journalism: finding the drama in the downtime.