“Man killed in police shooting had lengthy criminal past” should be a macro on any American newspaper’s typesetting keyboard. Claude Shannon would understand. The entropy in in that statement is about the same as in the letter “e”.
from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
“The idea here is that the less likely an event is, the more information it provides when it occurs. “
Conversely, the more likely an event, the less information is contains.