""Uses the Central Park jogger, sensational 1989 New York City rape case, to examine racial tensions in New York, and the way that the city's fabric of corruption (incorporated by its founding fathers) is obscured and sustained by a sentimentality for the narratives it tells about itself, whether they are true or not.She reviews the differences in the way the case was reported in white- and black-owned media, and contrasts it with cases involving black victims.