TampaBay.com Poynter's St. Petersburg Times debuted its
Mug Shots site Monday and it had 100,000 page views in the first three hours.
Eric Deggans wonders whether this should be a totally free site. "Given the needs newspapers face for revenue, I wish we could have found a way to charge for some aspects of it -- maybe by providing photo prints for people who want to immortalize their Mug Shot experience."
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"Is Mug Shots the next nail in the coffin of journalistic standards?"