Aljazeera documentary aired an excellent show lately about Dubai entitled "Dubai .. big dream for small emirate", addressing both economic success and social troubles plus negative sceneries of expatriates from other countries. It also covers an overview about success of Emirates Airlines.
I personally do not like Dubai but I think the programme is very objective and worth to watch, giving a balance of bad and good things. Just follow up the schedule from aljazeera documentary site to know about it. It is repeated several times.
Last night, I watched a show on Dubai TV with two journalists describing western media as biased and feel jealous because of Dubai success!! Even ruler of Dubai started to respond to media speculations about his health and Dubai economy.