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One reader who covers the White House writes in with what he's hearing. I post with permission:
First, yeah, there was a turf war, and it did play a role in how Goss was fir---uh, I mean, "left suddenly." It's not WHY Goss was canned, but it had an impact: He. Had. No. Defenders. Not at CIA, not at DNI, not in DoD, not in Cheney's office (which would rather see Hayden as DCI anyway). [...]
I'm told that Goss was canned because of the pending nastiness, or hilarity, or justice (depending on your view) regarding Foggo. My sources differ on precisely what the problem was: One says Goss refused to fire Foggo; another says the WH worried that Goss and Foggo would go down together and drag the WH and the GOP Congress down with them (a la Kerik).
My best guess for the groupthink is who's doin' the writin'. National security folks [...] are going to talk to national security sources and get national security explanations. Sometimes that's all it takes for this kind of narrative to develop. Daily News and others, though, are going with non-nat/sec sources, and as a result they are getting a different explanation (that may also happen as Congressional correspondents sink their teeth into the story).
Update: Not to mention, the gossip columnists. Here's deep Kremlinological analysis from the NY Post's Cindy Adams. Sounds right to me!