The ME and the MSM

Well it's been about a month since the assassination of Qassam. And now, we're hearing that we were lied to (quite possibly and given the fake casus belli of the past I'd put the odds as better than 50%) about the reasons for that killing. 
But though that's not exactly new news (liars in the gov) I do want to go over a few things in terms of us interpreting the news. See a friend of mine and I were discussing this inability to really trust the MSM. And this latest Lucy takes the football away moment (for yet another war) seems to only reinforce that idea. But even on RT, ostensibly paid for by oligarchs who want our oligarchs to look bad, I saw that during the height of the crisis they too seemed to swallow the line that the Militias had indeed struck the US base when it now seems that that was not the case. Why is that? Why do so many seem to take official lines that easily? [1]
But whatever I might not like about RT (and in that episode you see them talking about Whatsapp and  not mention the revelations that they do have backdoors and could already be hacked) they seem to be telling a better story than most people in the MSM. What does that say about us? Any major issues you see with some of that information? My view? Like I said before, it's not a right or wrong or finding a prophet as a news channel but trying to make the best of what information we have.
Finally, why does it seem so easy to conduct foreign policy by emotion rather than thinking? Again everyone seems to think this is over, and yet it's not. What kind of alignment can we expect in the future? Your thoughts?
[1] the other questions are: did Qassam actually order those attacks? And were we just trying to stop him and KSA from reaching a peace deal? Does it have anything to do with Turkey and its latest illegal incursion?
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