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Tuesday, November 24, 
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Dead Horse loses a limb

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It seems blog proprietor Dead Horse Media LLC is folding one of its secondary outlets, Super Mogul, into the company's Dealbreaker snarkfest. Nothing really shocking here. Super Mogul never managed to differentiate itself from Dealbreaker — just take a peak at Dead Horse's media kit and try to find statistics about Super Mogul's audience. Dead Horse "broke" the "news" of the "acquisition" in a post on Dealbreaker, characterizing the "takeover" as "hostile in a friendly way." The other appendages are Above the Law and Fashionista, which apparently are "not on the block." —Matthew Wurtzel

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