The talent of Louis Theroux is his ability to ask the most obvious questions with a disarming innocence. To draw out truth is a forgotten or less than celebrated trait in modern journalism. In his latest documentary, The Settlers, Theroux is not a mouthpiece for the establishment, though the production was done through the BBC. Theroux follows in the footsteps of Robert Fisk by giving the microphone to the innocent—and their tormentors. In doing so he has drawn controversy, but not because he manipulated or changed words. He simply let people speak their minds; the truth is harmful, even to...
















