Bari Weiss, the brand spanking new head of CBS News, is entering her Elon Musk Era.

And Weiss seems really new—not because she just started the job, but new as in, “Are you brand new?” because that’s the only explanation for her behavior out of the gate.

First came her absolutely cringe-worthy start, where she tried to rally the troops by declaring “Let’s do the fucking news!” during an all-staff call. Weiss’ subsequent memo to her staff, which seems to have leaked nearly immediately, is … not any better, but it does have a familiar Muskian ring to it.

Perhaps Weiss can be forgiven for biting Musk’s style. It isn’t as if she has any recognizable writing of her own. Weiss has never run anything larger than her Substack newsletter, “The Free Press,” which, while a premier destination for

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