This journalist faces a dilemma: the poller crisis is the most important story of the pre-window period, but covering it thoroughly consumes articles that could be used for other coverage. At 120 articles to 5,000, every article counts. The solution: integrate the crisis coverage into the countdown — each article serves both as crisis documentation AND as a step toward the 5,000 milestone. This is the art of AI journalism at scale: every article must carry multiple payloads simultaneously.