The Marketplace team set up shop in Dubai for a week. Involved in the broadcasts were Kai Ryssdal, Nancy Farghalli, Amy Scott, Eric Johnson, Miguel Macias and Ravi Carman.
  • Rosa kittsteiner 2 years ago
    I love the show and the videos it gives me a window to the making of the show ,it is fascinating , also wish you did more to show other market places in other parts of the world that maybe need attention and are not as shining as dubai, good work and love this direct broadcast from the actual site you report on

    Rosa Kittsteiner
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  • Steven Hurwitz 2 years ago
    You guys seem a little star struck there in the big money city of Dubai. How about a little insight into this Middle Eastern capitalism that treats workers as expendable, offering no stake in the city they are helping to create. Overcrowded bunkhouses hardly pass as worker housing in a city of palaces. This is not even rich or poor. This is the play land of the rich being constructed by the impoverished. And we can guess what they will have to show for their efforts once their visa's are revoked and they are sent packing. So far you have shown more interest in birds of prey than the people building the city.
  • Marketplace plus 2 years ago
    Hello Steven. Thanks for the feedback. Please take a look at another story we did on Dubai's labor camps: marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/11/meaw_pm2_migrants_dubai/
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  • Jimmy Tran 2 years ago
    This is a series on experimentation and modernity in every sense. Beyond giving us snippets of Dubai's obscene grandeur, we are seeing Marketplace at the juncture of online broadcasting and video technology experimentation. It's wonderful to see raw and quickly edited video from a show that's typi.cally so well refined. I'm sure just that as we will fondly look back on Dubai's and China's phenomenal urban growth and social engineering of the early 21st century, we will also marvel at the online experimentation and presentation of 21st century media.

    On on with the great reporting.
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