The problem for RT, Sputnik, and Epoch Times is the power of the official narratives. The official narratives are so ingrained that it is difficult to communicate outside them. Moreover, many of the editors and journalists for these alternative media organizations are hesitant to step too far outside the narrative as they exist under Washington's threat of being closed down. Additionally, it is difficult even for alternative journalists to get their minds outside the box and present entirely different narratives.

As an example consider the October 29, 2021 report in RT that the US "intelligence community," an oxymoron, has concluded that Covid-19 is neither genetically engineered or a bioweapon, but may change its mind if China doesn't open its laboratories to US "intelligence."
https://www.rt.com/news/538901-us-intel-china-covid-warning/

RT has performed the service of showing that Washington's "intelligence report" serves the function of providing another threat to China in addition to putting Taiwan in the UN and sending US Navy ships through waters claimed by China. However, the RT report fails by not challenging the intelligence community's conclusion.

Released NIH grant documents show clearly that the US through Fauci at NIH was funding gain-of-function research at the University of North Carolina. Many experts consider gain-of-function research, which is research to increase the ability of a virus to spread, to be bioweapon research. When controversy arose, Fauci switched the funding to the Chinese lab in Wuhan. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is what the official documents show. Senator Rand Paul has tried to make an issue of it, but the presstitutes do not cooperate and neither do the Republicans. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/10/31/should-fauci-face-the-death-penalty/