I would not want to be a journalist in Somalia, so to ask if that is unrealistic, yes, it's pretty close. It's probably something that has to be handled by Somalis themselves, to some extent. The problem is that al Shabaab is likely to take you down if you are saying anything that is remotely critical of them. They're literally pulling people out of cars in some cases and looking for any indication that someone is a journalist.
In that sense, al Shabaab has to be contained, but I don't think it's clear how al Shabaab is to be contained, except to the extent that al Shabaab is a response to a western presence, or what they perceive as being a government that is created by the west or supported by AMISOM. There is another scholar who says that's the real problem, and that al Shabaab would disappear if it didn't seem to be fighting against the west.