No. Fake news.
four hours and 56 minutes is fractionally under 5 hours, not "just over 4 hours". Caleb's engaging in some intellectual dishonesty here. A fiction writer might prefer the term 'poetic license', however.
No. The journos are just not that good with math.
Of course, the most likely explanation is Caleb cannot solve 2 + 2, so he went into journalism to avoid the hard math.