A veteran journalist has resigned from Canada’s public broadcaster while making her reasons for quitting public, saying the CBC embodies “the worst trends in mainstream media.” “In a short period of time, the CBC went from being a trusted source of news to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of the student press,” wrote Tara Henley on Jan. 3 on Substack, a web and newsletter platform increasingly popular with journalists and authors seeking greater independence. Henley worked as a TV and radio producer at the CBC for nearly a decade, after joining the corporation in 2013. She has worked as a journalist with various news organizations for the past 20 years and published her first book in 2020, “Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life.” Henley says to work at the CBC “in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic …