From the school of Celebrity Journalism
Exteriors are important, as well as brand names.
That the film director wore "a dark wool suit, and a strand of his silver-streaked hair fell over one eye, framing the dramatic angles of his jaw," is not quite enough information. What sort of suit was he wearing? Comme de Garcons, Armani? That the names of the singer Judy Collins' three cats are Coco Chanel, Rachmaninoff, and Tom Wolfe is, however, relevant to the portrait the celebrity journalist paints of the legendary chanteuse.
It pays to keep in mind that the difference between journalism and celebrity journalism is the difference between a friend and a great friend. A friend is someone you know and can trust to tell you the truth; a great friend is someone you know and presumably trust who is also important enough, i.e. has enough social and cultural status, that by dropping his or her name as a great friend into your reporting enhances your own social and cultural status. A celebrity journalist can never use the phrase, my great friend enough.
Celebrity journalism is not to be confused with journalism per se. Journalism is defined as the attempt by the journalist to report the news. It's also fair to define journalism as the time the reader spends reading it, presumably attempting by his reading to better understand his life and the lives of his fellow human beings. Celebrity journalism is a vastly different enterprise: it's a reconstruction of the time the readeris permitted to re-live his life by permitting another human beings to live for him, thinking that others are living far more interesting lives than he is.
The most unique property of celebrity journalism? None of what it presents really matters, therefore none of it is really news. At best it is uniquely Duchampian, in that it presents no solution because there is no problem; at worst it is a never ending battle between stereotype and cliche. Celebrity journalism must always be in service to the system of endless promotion--movie tie-ins, record deals, art openings, book releases, political candidates, sporting events, Black Friday's and Christmas tree lots. Celebrity journalism is the real fake news or, if not fake, at least faux.
Celebrity journalists hold this truth to be self-evident: that totalitarianism, once and forever defined as the organized expendability of human life, is now in the capable hands of celebrity journalism, ever expanding the original notion of the totalitarian way to embrace the trivialization of daily affairs to the ground-zero point of meaninglessness.