Tim Graham: Anti-Trump media are now trying to destroy Pete Hegseth's nomination for secretary of defense

Tim Graham : Vetting the records of Cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function.

Graham : It's not a journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources.

Networks who eagerly spread anonymously sourced hit pieces are also illegitimate, he says.

He says fairness and balance are equated with “normalizing” Trump .