In all of Chapter 1 Jenkins talks about the "spoiling" of survivor and the how it is done and plays it out to be a serious thing that everyone is doing and how it is affecting our culture. One sentence caught my eye late in this chapter when he talks about Mark Burnett in an interview saying " Spoiling is what it is as long as it doesn't affect ratings. There may be 5000 people on the Internet but there are some 20 million viewers and they don't spend their time reading the Internet.". I agree with this statement, although this convergence is taking place, it is not very wide spread. Our community as a whole overwhelms that small community of "spoilers" and I don't believe this is a proper example. This year, Survivor has an average of 13.8 million viewers (Gorman, Bill). Obviously, this convergence of media isn't as wide spread as Jenkins talks about.
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