Reporters Without Borders vs. Beijing 2008

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  12.10.07 | 10:57 AM ET

imageReporters Without Borders—or the much hipper sounding Reporters Sans Frontieres, if you prefer—launched a campaign against the Chinese government’s crackdown on journalists and Internet users earlier this year, according to its Web site. I just spotted this powerful billboard promoting the campaign yesterday in Los Angeles. Among the organization’s beefs: China’s ongoing detention of at least 30 journalists and 50 Internet users, the blocking of news Web sites and the fact that “the authorities are now concentrating on blogs and video-sharing sites.”