it is indeed interesting to see how the pereception of Dubai in the global media has changed over the last years from total blind admiration to some form of malicious glee whenever things go wrong.
I also always tried to explain my many guests in Dubai the UAE view of the world and also somewhat to defend their approach.
I am German myself so I can understand how the established rich west thinks about any of those new countries who came up the last decades and now sit in with them together in G 20.
Of course nobody wants to share power, and nobody wants to share wealth. So it is quite natural that countries like the UK with all the same strucutral problems of bad economy, high debts, unemployment will try to humble the allegedly better off nations wherever they can.
The point is as that the autocratic style of government in all GCC states together with the censorship of media makes them so vulnerable to all of that.
It is so ridiculous when you browse through any GCC newspaper and you only see the rulers getting praised all day long opening this, holding a speech there, and making that decision.
In a system where you cannot criticise the ruling family cause they are somewhat good given and where thus all governmental decisions are made in some closed small circles behind closed doors you will always have these effects as a reaction of the foreign press.
So the mere fact that you call that anyway faible form of criticism a slur shows that Dubai and its media still have a long way to go.

But it will for sure be an interesting one – to go and to watch!