From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

For weeks now, the Obama campaign has been hitting Mitt Romney hard over claims that during

his tenure as CEO of Bain Capital, he outsourced American jobs.

As you might imagine, the Obama campaign has aggressively pushed this claim in ads in crucial swing states.

Mitt Romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.

Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator.

I know how jobs are created.

But as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to China and Mexico.

The Washington Post has just revealed that Romney's companies were pioneers in shipping U.S. jobs overseas.

And the president has hit the same point hard in speeches.

Let me tell you, Tampa, we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the Oval Office.

We need a president who will fight for American jobs.

The problem is that Romney denies the charge, and the Obama campaign cannot prove it's true.

Factcheck.org, among others, has written that the outsourcing at Bain Capital took place in the years after Romney surrendered management of the company and its assets to run the Salt Lake City Olympics in February of 1999.

It's a murky issue made murkier by Thursday's Boston Globe report, revealing numerous government filings by Romney

from 1999 to 2002, indicating he remained sole owner of the company and was getting compensation

for management duties. Romney's camp has asked for a correction. The Globe has refused. According to

political scientist and media critic Brendan Nihann, the story would

be a lot less confusing if the media would just do a better job.

The Obama campaign has released a series of ads that suggest to viewers that Romney was actively

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