Political impact on blogs

IN 2002 the blogs have been very famous and were consist on the great knowledge and also were considered the big source for the coverage and shaping the news.
                            For the first time in the history of  modern journalism blogs were used to criticized the war of U.S against Iraq.Then blogs were used to criticize and also to analyze the truth.

In 2002 an incident took place which is considers to the first step of popularity of the blogs when many bloggers create blogs and starting comments on U.S Senate Leader Trent Lott dismiss the party owner U.S Senator Storm and recommended that it would be better for the party to elect a new Senator.
                                At that time general public made a hundred  blogs commenting on this issue and were criticized well to this issue via blogging.At that time blogging help the people to criticized on the political freely.
           Similarly an other incident took place when Mr.Dan Rather presented a document of president Bush 's  military service record which show a great conflict.  Bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented evidence and arguments in support of that argument.People criticized well on this issue.
                                       These issues gave a great credibility to the blogs and blogs now were considered the best medium of news.After that time blogs got great fame in very short time.