I’m totally fine saying newspapers, conceptually, are just net negative.
They are a tool that can be used for good or evil but largely inevitably end up in the hands of selfish commercial or political interests.
Conceptually they’re just a medium. Social media is just a medium. But there’s a big difference in how they operate, the former had to be paid and had many competitors, the latter is paid by advertisor and there are just a few who own the whole landscape.