Video shows Egypt generals plotting media gag

New footage released by activists shows army top brass discussing ways to tighten control over country's media.

"We must re-establish red lines for the media. We need to find a new way of neutralising them, the media in Egypt is controlled by 20 or 25 people," the officer is heard saying in the footage. “We should engage with these people directly and individually either terrorise them or win them over,“ he adds. Sisi then interrupts the officer and says: “I know how to win them over, but tell me how do you suggest I terrorise them?” “I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power in 2011, and we suffered a lot; because in order to achieve what you’re talking about you need to have influence, it's not as simple as just setting up a committee or task force,” Sisi is heard saying in the video. “It takes a long time before you’re able to affect and control the media. We are working on this and we are achieving more positive results but we are yet to achieve what we want.”
Why have a free press when you follow the examples of such bastions of freedom like: Russia, Turkey, Singapore, South Korea, Hungry and South Africa all of which have laws to muzzle the free press they love so much. Then there places like Sri Lanka, Mexico, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Philippines were journalists are simply killed for their efforts to expose government wrong doing.