The mainstream media and gay marriage

Australian independent media website, Crikey, has an article about how the British mainstream media are not referring to a to the partner of a boyband singer who died this week as his husband. The gay couple married in 2006, yet the media refers to them as being 'partners'. The British tabloid, The Mirror, didn't even mention that he was at a gay bar when he chocked on his vomit and died. The article questions what language the media should use when the law does recognises the union as a 'civil ceremony' rather than marriage.