The where question or the research coverage was addressed by the psychological research account but was already left out by the popular media article. The answers to most of the basic questions are already covered by the abstract of the psychological research which can be found in the first page. As such, in a glance, you can have access to the gist of information gathered by this empirical work. On the other hand, the answers to these basic research questions are gradually unraveled as you read along the popular media article. On the Structure

The primary source article follows the usual format of a research report. It has an abstract on the first page, an introduction, clear and detailed objectives, narration of the results and discussion. One can also read about how the entire study was carried out via the materials and methods portion. The popular media source, on the other hand, follows the usual featured article format. The first sentence usually attempts to catch your interest and followed by the introduction of the research. You cannot expect detailed narrations of how the research was done. It focused more on the findings of the research.

While the primary source provides a detailed discussion of the findings, the popular media settled for a secondary interview with one of the authors of the study.

It can also be observed that the primary psychological research is lengthy while the popular media can be read in just a few minutes.

On Language

The primary psychological account is more sophisticated that the popular media article. It can be seen in how scholastic the approach of the former was -- statistical language was also used in several parts of the journal article whereas popular media article employs a down-to-earth, related language.

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Whereas the popular media has ordinary Joe reader in mind, the psychological research article has the academic and scientific community as its expected audience. So for ordinary Joe, the article has to be catchy, interesting, and easy to read while it has to be scientific, precise, and detailed as much as possible as once it is published in puts itself open to the questioning of scientific community.
The popular media account's main objective is to have as much people informed of the results of the empirical study. Simply stated, its main objective is to convey ideas. However, the primary psychological research account's task goes beyond this task. With scholars and scientific community in mind, it needed to be detailed to provide opportunity for future researchers to validate. It needed to be precise and scientific because it is geared towards producing and building knowledge.

This goes to show that no one type of media is better than the other. It just so happened that these forms of media have different goals hence choosing the one particular form of media over the other rests upon our very own objectives as well.