The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a part of the Pew Research Center, recently released a survey of American journalists’ experiences in Iraq.

Unsurprisingly, the results are grim, a fact made blatant by this chart from PEJ’s summary of the survey:

And according to the New York Times, most non-Iraqi journalists can’t do much actual reporting in Iraq because they’ll get killed. And most of the Iraqis hired by journalists can’t let people know they’re journalists, or they’ll get killed. And Iraqi journalists and support teams make up most of the journalism casualties in Iraq.

The results of this survey are jarring in two ways: First, they reveal the extent to which we lack reliable, non-military sources of information about what's going on in Iraq. Second, Iraqi journalists and support teams are dying in far greater numbers than American and other foreign journalists.

Without credible reporting and protections for Iraqi journlists, how can we hope to get an accurate picture of Iraq--let alone any kind of resolution?