President Donald Trump's expected attendance at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner this weekend has brought renewed scrutiny to the event that honors the press.

The administration's animus toward journalists has been a fixture of Trump's second term, from berating individual reporters, fighting organizations like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press in court to restricting press access to the Pentagon.

It's another layer of complexity for the so-called “nerd prom,” given the name for the sight of reporters in tuxes.…