#MileyCyrus criticism led to #Twitter death threats for #Radio1 presenter #JameelaJamil

BBC Radio 1 chart show presenter Jameela Jamil has told how she was subject to "terrifying" death and sexual threats on Twitter after she criticised Miley Cyrus. Jamil said pop stars such as Cyrus, who provoked outrage with her twerking performance opposite Robin Thicke at last year's MTV video music awards, were contributing to the objectification of women's bodies.Jamil, who also makes documentaries for BBC3, criticised the BBC's decision to close down the TV channel, making it online-only next year, saying young people always "got the short end of the bargain". In a discussion about trolling at Ad Week Europe in London on Tuesday, Jamil said: "I have had quite a lot of those death threats, really scary sexual threats, all because I might have touched on Miley Cyrus and her overt use of her sexuality and her vagina to give her more of a platform in the media. "I debated whether it was the right way to go necessarily for the progression of woman and it was just terrifying, the onslaught that you receive." Jamil, who took over Radio 1's official chart last year from Reggie Yates, part of the station's move to attract a younger audience, said women in the mainstream media should do more to support other women. "You don't always see that in magazines and in all publications," she said. "You see women tearing down other women, women publishing unflattering photographs of other women, chastising other women. It's time to encourage one another," she told the conference. "The media which criticises young people are the same media who are guilty of turning us against each other." On the increasing sexualisation of women in the media and in music videos, Jamil said: "Women, especially a lot of pop stars, tend to treat it as if they are using it to empower themselves, taking ownership [of their bodies], taking the taboo out of it, when in fact what they are doing is perpetuating something created by men. "Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified. This further perpetuates that. It's a bit of a shame because they have the platform to make a difference and to shape a generation's minds. It should not be abused and taken for granted." Jamil said the generation of so-called "millennials" – people born in the 1980s and 1990s – were portrayed in the media as "spoiled and hard done by". "We don't get nearly as much good press as we deserve," she said. "I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation." With BBC3, the corporation's dedicated youth channel due to close as a TV channel next year, replaced by an online-only service, Jamil said: "It's so often the young people who get the short end of the bargain. "Look at T4 [on Channel 4] – it went away, now there is very little youth programming going on. BBC3 was something that … of course there was the odd questionable title, as there is with any channel, but it was really specifically targeted at making documentaries for young people. "It was educating them, nurturing them, saying you are important, we are gifting you with knowledge that will arm you in later life. We are not doing that, we are expecting them to find it for themselves and everything is online now. Everyone is becoming very separated in the next generation, chatting on Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming isolated."

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