I hope Rumsfeld's treatment of the press will raise their standards. Maybe they'll all start asking better questions to avoid being skewered by Rumsfeld. Maybe they'll start trying to come up with the best question to stump him. Maybe all other public figures will start to learn from Rumsfeld; that they can manipulate the press in to asking better questions by refusing to answer or criticizing the stupid questions.
Maybe they'll start trying to come up with the best question to stump him Don't forget who were talking about.
These are the same folks who, when the last President said it all "depended on the meaning of 'is'," started going "oh, wow, how brilliant, how insightful," etc.
I'm not holding my breath.