The New Yorker profile of Elisabeth Murdoch To give you a flavour, here's Auletta's final paragraph: 'I asked Murdoch a final question: How much of her drive was motivated by a desire to impress her father? "You'd love your parents to be proud of you," she began. Of course that influenced me. But not so much anymore, because I feel - how to say this? - I feel that I know who I am. Each time I tried to work in his company, he wasn't impressed. I realized I had to just go and be myself.