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June 2, 2005
Blog and Tell : Film at 11.
DALLAS - For most of the past two semesters, nobody knew the identity of "The Phantom Professor."
The educator's anonymous Web log, set at an unnamed university "in the South," spun tales of spoiled-rich "Ashleys" with their $500 sandals and $1,500 handbags, eating disorders, plagiarism and drug use, legal and illegal.
"At this school it seems like every kid is on multiple medications," the professor wrote, describing her charges as "barely literate," prone to emotional problems and "terrified of displeasing Mommy and
Daddy."
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Earlier this month, Elaine Liner, an adjunct professor who taught writing and ethics classes in SMU's public relations department since 2001, revealed in an online publication that the blog was hers. Liner, who writes freelance theater reviews for a Dallas weekly, also let it be known that in late March she was told her contract to teach at the school would not be renewed.
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Since her story broke, Liner said several agents have called and she is actively working to sell her story.
"I heard the two words every writer waits a lifetime to hear," she said. "Movie deal."
Source: THomas Korosec, SMU lecturer takes heat for telling blog. The 'Phantom Professor' says it was an outlet and could be a movie, Houston Chronicle, May 28, 2005, 7:44PM http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/3201823
Posted by sjc at June 2, 2005 10:23 AM
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