Correct you are. Nearly no professional press... WND is good, and a few others, but they’re few and far between.
And blogs, as you say, are often written by kooks.
However, as the author, I can assure you I’m no kook. I write sourced analyses and confer with multiple people before publishing. I can’t promise they are always 100% spot on accurate - I don’t live in Syria, or Qatar, or Pakistan - but I can at least assure you that they’re well researched and to a large extent vetted by people more familiar than I am with the situations.
Well, that’s the point. Everything you might very well be true, but how does anyone really know?