Does The Pahrump Valley Times Have Any Ethics Left?

The Pahrump Valley Times (PVT) is a small town newspaper located in, you guessed it, Pahrump, NV. I began reading it a couple of years ago for some stories that were interesting and because my wife is from Pahrump.
When I first began reading the paper, it was your usual run of the mill newspaper- it reported on the usual stuff- crime, special interest, politics etc in a straight forward and honest way.
However, since the beginning of this year the PVT, something changed. Maybe they wanted to become muckrakers, like the old school journalists. Maybe they decided they wanted to be activist reporters who decided to put their opinion in their reporting. Many articles have been written that have as news stories but come out as editorial opinion pieces of the writers. Or perhaps the PVT just wanted to have a competition to see which newspaper is more unethical- the Las Vegas Sun or the PVT?
One thing is for sure is that the writers of the PVT are little cowards when they are accused of being unethical. If you write something in their comment sections about their journalism, they would remove their entire comment. They can certainly dish out criticism, but they are very cowardice when it comes time to accepting criticism. The Cowardly Lion of the Wizard of Oz comes to mind, when it comes the PVT staff.

Now, the PVT has become even more unethical. It is one thing to block a whole comment they find objectionable- I can live with that, but now that are putting in comments that have been altered by the PVT staff and now alerting their readers of the alteration.
The PVT ran an article this week about a young adult woman who has been arrested and put in jail numerous times. the article is written by Kelci Parks, but I do not know who edits comments from the readers, but here is part of the article:
Some people never learn.
Most of the time, when a criminal gets caught, they pay their debt to society, reform their ways, and never bother authorities or the community again.
Then there are habitual criminals, the ones who just can’t stay out of trouble.
Pahrump resident Heather Wallen is a textbook example of the latter. She is the poster child for repeat offenders, whose continued criminal activities clog the courts and stretch already stressed law enforcement resources.
She’s only 21, but she’s been arrested 10 times since 2008, and four times so far this year. Multiple criminal charges were filed against her recently as well, for which she wasn’t arrested because she was already in jail.
Wallen is well-known by law enforcement authorities. When the sheriff was asked about her for this report, he noted that she’s racked up quite a few “frequent flyer miles” with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
“Unfortunately, we do have many repeat offenders,” said Sheriff Tony DeMeo. “But some people fly below the radar and some people don’t. She actually was flying below the radar for a while, but the last few arrests got her noticed. Especially the last one, because of the amount of times she’s been arrested.”
http://pvtimes.com/news/bad-girl-story-of-a-repeat-offender/comment-page-1/#comments
It's a fairly benign article. Interesting, but not really newsworthy, especially since they did not interview this woman and find why she is doing all these crimes and getting her side of the story. That would have would made the story compelling.
So, I wrote this comment in the comment section: This woman is like a mosquito- a pain in the butt, but a community can survive people like her.
One hopes she gets her act together and also, hope she never has children. Otherwise, she will end dead before the age of 30.

Except, that is not all I wrote. The PVT edited this part (not word for word, but very close) "I can't help but wonder why they chose to write this article. They have not written articles about black male or females, Hispanic male or females or white males. One thinks they wrote this article because she is a white female who kind of looks cute." They did not write that the comment was edited by the newspaper.
How do we know that the PVT has not been editing other comments or news articles that the PVT doesn't like? How about police reports? How about comments the police have said? How about Pahrump and Nye County politicians? Have they ever edited a quote to fit the writer's agenda?

How about the PVT's war against Shirley Matson, the tax assessor of Nye County? The Pahrump Valley Times have been at war with Matson over some supposed bigoted things Matson has written and said. Now that we know that the PVT will edit comments that the PVT does not like without telling it's readers, how do we know if the PVT has edited or taken out of context what Matson has supposedly said and/or written?

The PVT used to be a good newspaper, a very nice small town newspaper that told the story without prejudice. However, this past year, things have changed for the worse and it has become a newspaper without ethics. It would interesting to know if it is the owner doing this or the editor who is allowing unethical journalism inside their paper.
But, one thing is for certain, you cannot trust the Pahrump Valley Times for accurate reporting anymore, and that is a shame.