Rant against TV meterologists

Continuing with the theme of my previous post about weather nazis, I have a question to ask? Why, on earth, are TV meterologists so famous? What did Al Roker do? He was corpulent, predicted weather mostly wrong, got famous and then got his stomach stapled. Granted that he is suave and articulate but I can countt other Joe Somebodys who are equally suave and articulate. For a profession whose predictions are worse than the abysmal predictions of the economists, it is mindboggling to see the false fame of these TV meterologists. We don't see a show Jazzing-up Gary Becker or Joseph Stiglitz.

That said, I completely understand the fan following of Kristina Abernathy of the weather channel. :)